Detective Amber Joy Leist had observed an elderly woman who had fallen in the middle of the road and stopped and exited her vehicle to give assistance when she was struck by an oncoming car.
An off-duty officer with the Bear Valley (CA) Police Department accidentally shot himself in the leg at a golf course on New Year's Eve.
Officer James "Mitch" Ellis, 49, had just gotten off work and was heading home to his family in Illinois when an oncoming vehicle crashed head on into the vehicle he was driving.
An off-duty reserve officer with the Buena Park (CA) Police Department was killed in a vehicle collision in the city of Corona early Saturday morning.
The chief of police for the Nashville (MI) Police Department died in a single-vehicle crash on Thursday morning as he was driving to work.
An off-duty officer with the Independence (MO) Police Department was injured in a vehicle collision on Thursday morning.
An off-duty officer with the Alhambra Police Department suffered an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound during an encounter with an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy on Sunday night.
An off-duty inspector with the New York Police Department was struck and killed by a dumpster truck while he rode his motorcycle to work on Monday morning.
An off-duty police officer with the Philadelphia Police Department died when his vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree.
An officer with the Georgia Southern University Police Department has succumbed to injuries he sustained in an off-duty vehicle collision last week.