Daniel J Muehlhausen Memorial Highway - Rice, CA - Police Memorials on Waymarking.com

"Officer Daniel J. Muehlhausen had finished investigating a minor traffic accident and was dispatched to assist a disabled motorist about 11 a.m. Officer Muehlhausen was traveling east on Highway 62 near Twentynine Palms, when a mini pickup attempting to pass on a hill crossed over double yellow lines and struck his patrol car head on. The 30-year-old Patrol officer and the two young male occupants of the truck were killed instantly. Both vehicles were immediately engulfed in flames.

The rural two-lane stretch of highway where the crash occurred was marked with "No Passing" warning signs because of numerous dips and blind curves that hamper a driver's view of oncoming traffic. Only hours earlier, the driver was traveling in a group of four mini-trucks when one of the drivers was ticketed for trying to pass unsafely.

Officer Muehlhausen was assigned to the Indio Area after graduating from the Academy two years earlier." (visit link)

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