Troop D - October 5, 1925
Trooper Ernest F. Rudd, 30, and his partner died instantly on October 5, 1925, when their vehicle collided with a train near Geneva. The open touring car derailed the "Black Diamond Express", a high speed passenger train, but there were no injuries to the train's three hundred passengers.
Trooper Rudd was born and raised in Rome, New York and joined the Division of State Police after serving with the Marines in Europe during World War I.