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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY GRELL, BLOOM, DELOZIER, KAUFFMAN AND PERRY, JANUARY 31, 2012 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 31, 2012 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Designating the bridge carrying State Route 114 over Interstate |
2 | 81 in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, as the |
3 | Corporal Paul Walters Memorial Bridge. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Corporal Paul Walters Memorial Bridge. |
7 | (a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as |
8 | follows: |
9 | (1) Paul Walters was honorably discharged from the |
10 | United States Air Force, having served in Vietnam. |
11 | (2) Paul Walters became a patrolman for the Silver |
12 | Spring Township Police Department on February 25, 1972. He is |
13 | the only officer to lose his life in the line of duty in the |
14 | history of the Silver Spring Township Police Department. |
15 | (3) Officer Walters was dispatched to the 6600 block of |
16 | the Carlisle Pike in Silver Spring Township on the evening of |
17 | January 19, 1975, due to a report of several teenage boys |
18 | throwing snowballs at tractor trailers. |
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1 | (4) Officer Walters and his partner proceeded to the |
2 | scene, and Officer Walters left their patrol car in the area |
3 | where the subjects were reported to have been seen. His |
4 | partner proceeded to a nearby location in order to approach |
5 | the suspects from the opposite direction. |
6 | (5) Officer Walters apprehended the suspects and placed |
7 | them under arrest. As he escorted them along the Carlisle |
8 | Pike to the location of the parked patrol car under |
9 | conditions of low driver visibility, Officer Walters walked |
10 | along the left lane of northbound traffic and used his |
11 | flashlight to signal approaching vehicles to the right lane |
12 | in order to provide for the safety of the suspects. |
13 | (6) Officer Walters signaled a large truck to move into |
14 | the right lane. The driver of the truck heeded Officer |
15 | Walters' direction. Unbeknownst to the driver and Officer |
16 | Walters, a vehicle was closely following the truck. |
17 | (7) Officer Walters was struck by this vehicle. He died |
18 | shortly thereafter. |
19 | (8) Officer Walters was survived by his parents, three |
20 | children and his sister. |
21 | (9) Officer Walters was posthumously promoted to the |
22 | rank of corporal by the Board of Supervisors of Silver Spring |
23 | Township. |
24 | (b) Designation.--The bridge carrying State Route 114 over |
25 | Interstate 81 in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, is |
26 | designated as the Corporal Paul Walters Memorial Bridge. |
27 | (c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and |
28 | maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to |
29 | traffic in both directions. |
30 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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