05-31-2011, 10:53 AM
(re: post 123)
police are being hit by vehicles all over the country. by stinking drunk drivers. State Troopers in Mass. are hit over and over. it's everywhere. hit directing traffic. hit while on side of road at a stop. hit putting out stop-sticks. hit while on work details. crippled, paralyzed, killed. we're mad here in Mass. everyone should be mad. drunk bitch in photo here just plowed down a State Trooper. :(
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Massachusetts State Trooper Ellen Engelhardt would have been ecstatic this week to finally see her beloved Boston Bruins playing for the Stanley Cup again.
But Trooper Engelhardt lived in a Middleboro rehab facility for the severely brain damaged. She has been unable to walk, talk, feed herself or communicate since a then 18-year-old drunken driver, William P. Senne, plowed his father’s Volvo into her cruiser — its blue lights flashing — at nearly 100 miles per hour.
That was on June 26, 2003.
About a month ago, her condition not improving while she struggled just to breathe, Engelhardt’s daughter and brothers decided to bring in hospice care, said family spokesman Ric Teves, a state police sergeant.
Yesterday, Trooper Engelhardt died. She was 58.
“Trooper Engelhardt loved the Massachusetts State Police and the job loved her back,” said State Police Col. Marian J. McGovern, Engelhardt’s drill instructor when she became one of the first women on the force.
“People wanted to be in her company. She made them feel good. She did not have a heavy hand with tickets, though,” said McGovern. “We used to laugh about it.”
“This has been very tough on her daughter,” Teves said of Lora Tedeman, Engelhardt’s daughter and chief caregiver — and the mother of a 6-year-old son who never knew his grandmother.
Teves said Engelhardt’s father John, a Boston police officer, always told Engelhardt that if she really wanted to be a cop, she should become a trooper. “She got to do what she wanted to do.”
Engelhardt’s death comes amid an astonishing epidemic of state troopers struck by vehicles while on duty on Bay State roads: nearly half of the 45 staties hit in the past 18 months were victims of drunken drivers.
RIP
police are being hit by vehicles all over the country. by stinking drunk drivers. State Troopers in Mass. are hit over and over. it's everywhere. hit directing traffic. hit while on side of road at a stop. hit putting out stop-sticks. hit while on work details. crippled, paralyzed, killed. we're mad here in Mass. everyone should be mad. drunk bitch in photo here just plowed down a State Trooper. :(
Massachusetts State Trooper Ellen Engelhardt would have been ecstatic this week to finally see her beloved Boston Bruins playing for the Stanley Cup again.
But Trooper Engelhardt lived in a Middleboro rehab facility for the severely brain damaged. She has been unable to walk, talk, feed herself or communicate since a then 18-year-old drunken driver, William P. Senne, plowed his father’s Volvo into her cruiser — its blue lights flashing — at nearly 100 miles per hour.
That was on June 26, 2003.
About a month ago, her condition not improving while she struggled just to breathe, Engelhardt’s daughter and brothers decided to bring in hospice care, said family spokesman Ric Teves, a state police sergeant.
Yesterday, Trooper Engelhardt died. She was 58.
“Trooper Engelhardt loved the Massachusetts State Police and the job loved her back,” said State Police Col. Marian J. McGovern, Engelhardt’s drill instructor when she became one of the first women on the force.
“People wanted to be in her company. She made them feel good. She did not have a heavy hand with tickets, though,” said McGovern. “We used to laugh about it.”
“This has been very tough on her daughter,” Teves said of Lora Tedeman, Engelhardt’s daughter and chief caregiver — and the mother of a 6-year-old son who never knew his grandmother.
Teves said Engelhardt’s father John, a Boston police officer, always told Engelhardt that if she really wanted to be a cop, she should become a trooper. “She got to do what she wanted to do.”
Engelhardt’s death comes amid an astonishing epidemic of state troopers struck by vehicles while on duty on Bay State roads: nearly half of the 45 staties hit in the past 18 months were victims of drunken drivers.
RIP