Officer Daoud Mingo

Officer Daoud Mingo

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

On this day in BPD history, December 13, 2023, we lost our brother, Officer Daoud Mingo, to an accident on October 27, 2015, while participating in a funeral escort for a recently deceased Baltimore City Police Officer. 

On October 27, 2015, Baltimore City Police Motor Officer Daoud Mingo was involved in a departmental accident while participating in a funeral escort for a recently deceased Baltimore City Police Officer. Officer Mingo suffered serious injuries from this accident and remained hospitalized for a long time while healing and going through rehab. 

 

Officer on Motorcycle Critically Injured while Guiding Funeral Procession

By COLIN CAMPBELL and JESSICA ANDERSON

PUBLISHED: October 28, 2015 at 9:50 a.m. 
UPDATED: July 1, 2019 at 4:57 p.m.

A Baltimore police officer guiding a funeral procession on a motorcycle was critically injured in a crash Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore County, police said. The officer, a 15-year veteran of the city Police Department, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed in critical condition, Baltimore County police spokesman John Wachter said. The officer was not identified.

The officer was guiding the procession for the funeral of city police officer Joseph Tracy, who died off duty last week, city police said. The procession was heading to Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium. The officer was driving north in the 7100 block of Belair Road in Overlea about 1:15 p.m., when a black Jaguar in the opposite lane turned left onto Madeline Avenue, crossing into the motorcycle’s path, and the two collided, county police said.

The force of the crash threw the officer off the motorcycle, into the air, and into a mailbox on the sidewalk, two witnesses said. Donna Waddell and Marty Sprecher, who work at nearby A1 Bill & Earl’s Transmissions, said they had come outside to watch the funeral procession just before they witnessed the crash. A woman driving the Jaguar had been waiting for the procession to pass and tried to turn left through a gap in the cars, Waddell said. The officer, who had been near the back of the procession, had pulled alongside the cars and was driving to the front to stop traffic at an upcoming intersection, she said. “He didn’t even see her,” Waddell said. “It was horrible. It was really horrible.”

Tony Brown, a transport and detail employee at Overlea Motors across the street, said he was in a car warming up the engine when he heard the crash. “I heard a bang. I looked up, and I saw the officer fly in the air,” he said.

County police are investigating.

Belair Road was closed between Taylor Avenue and Northern Parkway for hours Tuesday before being reopened.

MARYLAND NEWS 

Police Officer In Critical Condition After Funeral Procession Accident

OCTOBER 27, 2015, 5:05 PM

OVERLEA, Md. (WJZ) -- A police officer is in critical condition after being injured while leading a funeral procession. Police say a car collided with his motorcycle in the seventy-one hundred block of Belair Road in Overlea. The officer, who is actually from Baltimore City and is a 15-year veteran of the force, was taken to Shock Trauma with serious injuries.

The driver of the other car was not injured. The crash is under investigation.

Baltimore City officer injured in Overlea crash 
Motorcycle officer taken to Shock Trauma

Updated: 6:44 PM EDT Oct 27, 2015

Saliqa Khan

WBALTV.com writer

SOURCE: WBAL-TV\SkyTeam 11

OVERLEA, Md. —

A Baltimore City police motorcycle officer is in critical condition after a crash Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore County. Emergency crews were called around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday to the 7100 block of Belair Road in Overlea. County police said the officer was traveling north on Belair Road when a car turned into its path onto Madeline Avenue, causing a collision.

The officer, a 15-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was taken to Shock Trauma. The officer was taking part in a funeral procession for Officer Joseph Tracy. Belair Road was shut down between Taylor Avenue and Northern Parkway until about 4 p.m.

No further details have been released.

 

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