State Road 520 Crash
Coco Police Officer Injured in Hit-and-Run along U.S. 1
On Sunday, Officer Rickford Leitch of the Cocoa Police Department was helping to escort a procession of individuals transporting the Traveling Vietnam War Memorial Wall through Cocoa and to Melbourne when he was hit by a car. The procession, an annual event that is widely attended and very popular among the citizens of the towns through which it passes, was traveling along U.S. 1 (which was recently ranked the most dangerous roadway in the country) when Officer Leitch was struck.