Geoffrey Joseph DALEY

Probationary Constable Geoffrey Joseph DALEY

Motor Vehicle Accident

Vaucluse

27 December, 1966

On 27 December, 1966 Constable Daley was riding a police motor cycle in New South Head Road, Vaucluse and while attempting to negotiate a sharp bend the cycle skidded on a patch of new bitumen, crossed the roadway and clipped a motor cycle. Constable Daley’s cycle then hit another vehicle head-on and the constable was thrown under it, inflicting fatal injuries.

The constable was born in 1942 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 4 April, 1966.