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Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Unknown

Race : Unknown

Date : 07/31/2021

Location : State Route 86 near Milepost 128

City : Sells

County : Pima

State : Arizona

Agency : U.S. Border Patrol

Officer(s) :Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Daniel Paul Cox

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Bystander killed by on-duty Border Patrol vehicle collision

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

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EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 07/31/2021, an unidentified civilian driver was killed in a head-on collision with an on-duty U.S. Border Patrol vehicle driven by Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Daniel P. Cox on State Route 86 near Milepost 128 outside Sells, Arizona. The civilian was the sole person in the vehicle. Cox was also killed.
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The collision occurred at approximately 12:20 a.m. on State Route 86 on the Tohono O'odham Reservation, approximately 60 miles southwest of Tucson. Cox was working in the Tucson Sector and was returning toward Tucson after working on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
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Cox's Border Patrol vehicle and the civilian vehicle collided head-on. Multiple emergency-response agencies, including an air-medical helicopter, responded. Cox and the civilian driver were pronounced dead shortly after the collision. No passengers were reported in either vehicle.
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Contemporary Border Patrol and news accounts released few details explaining how the vehicles came to collide. Later Border Patrol memorial material states that the civilian vehicle crossed the center line and struck Cox's Border Patrol vehicle head-on and describes the civilian driver as intoxicated. That information was not included in the initial public account and should therefore be attributed to the later Border Patrol account rather than stated as an independently established fact.
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The Tohono O'odham Police Department investigated the fatal collision. Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. publicly acknowledged that two people had died and offered condolences to both families.
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The civilian driver's name, age and biographical information were not disclosed in the contemporary reporting located for this reconstruction. The ACLU's subsequent CBP Fatal Encounters Tracker likewise records the civilian as an unidentified adult and does not supply a name.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Daniel Paul Cox was a Supervisory Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Tucson Sector and a member of Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue, or BORSTAR. He entered the Border Patrol on 07/28/1997 and had served approximately 24 years. Cox was 52 and a U.S. Army veteran. He was returning toward Tucson from work on the Tohono O'odham Reservation when the fatal collision occurred.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/border-patrol-agent-2nd-driver-killed-in-crash-in-arizona
https://www.kold.com/2021/07/31/border-patrol-agent-dies-car-crash/
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/07/31/tucson-sector-border-patrol-agent-killed-in-head-on-collision/
https://www.univision.com/local/arizona-ktvw/muere-daniel-cox-agente-de-la-patrulla-fronteriza-en-accidente-vehicular-en-arizona
https://www.odmp.org/search?filter=nok9&from=2021&state=Arizona&to=2021
https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/cbp_fatal_encounters_details_-_06072022.pdf
https://www.honorfirst.com/us-border-patrol-fallen.html