Sgt. Robert L. Everitt was killed on Dec. 7, when he was struck by an out-of-control pickup truck while he was directing traffic at the scene of a minor accident.

No charges were filed against the driver.

Everitt had been with the agency for 10 years.

His wife and three children survived him.

Officer Leonard L. Layton was enroute to a court appearance in Ukiah when he was killed on U.S. Highway 101. Accident investigators reported the patrol car went over an embankment while rounding a curve on the rain-slicked pavement. Layton, 26, had graduated from the Academy a year earlier. His father, retired Officer Leonard M. Layton, was on active duty at the time of his son’s death.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy John Slobojan was assigned to the Temple Sheriff’s Station at the time of his death. Deputy Slobojan was in foot pursuit of a juvenile robbery suspect for several minutes when he was observed stumbling to the ground. When asked by citizens if he needed assistance, he declined, got up and walked a few feet before falling again. At that time his partner caught up with Deputy Slobojan in their patrol car and found him unconscious. His partner attempted to revive Slobojan but he did not respond. An ambulance was called while fellow deputies continued administering CPR. At the hospital, doctors worked on him for fifteen minutes before declaring him dead. Deputy Slobojan was only thirty-years-old. Injuries sustained in an on-duty traffic collision ten months earlier may have contributed to his death.

Officer Charles 0. Woodworth was on patrol July 27, 1964 and had just pulled away from a stop sign when his motorcycle was struck broadside by an automobile. Woodworth sustained serious leg injuries from the impact of the crash, but his condition did not appear life-threatening. As he was recovering, Officer Woodworth suffered a fatal embolism attributed to the accident two weeks earlier.

Officer James F. Stamback had just parked his patrol car behind an automobile he stopped because its load of lumber was protruding beyond the legal limit. The patrolman was talking to the driver when, without warning, a two-ton flatbed truck suddenly barreled down on the scene, hitting the patrol car and pushing it into the other vehicle. Stamback received critical injuries from the impact and died 13 days later. The 39-year-old patrolman had been a member of the CHP for nine years.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy William White was assigned to Firestone Park Station in the south-central area of Los Angeles County at the time of his death. At 5:27 a.m. Deputy White and Deputy Robert Melendez received a disturbance call in the Firestone area. They were en route when hit by another car. Another unit, responding as backup to the disturbance call, saw lights in the distance, but were unaware of the traffic collision. While taking the report at the original location, the victims gave the assisting deputies the license number of the getaway vehicle. This vehicle was the one that struck the patrol car occupied by Deputies Melendez and White. Deputy White was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood where he succumbed to his injuries at 9:40 a.m.