111Keith A. Dees • March 7th 2002


Officer Keith A. Dees was a “Solo” Motorcycle Officer assigned to the Accident Division. Before heading home at the end of his shift, he was told to make a final check for disabled vehicles on his way out of town. Unfortunately, a vehicle had stalled in a moving lane of traffic on Interstate 45, outbound. With his vision obscured by a vehicle traveling in front of him, Officer Dees was unable to stop his police motorcycle before colliding into the rear of the stalled car. He was taken to Memorial Herman Hospital, but doctors were unable to save his life.

Officer Dees was 30 minutes from home with plans to take his family on vacation. He was a nineteen (19) year veteran of the police department. Officer Dees is survived by his wife, Deborah, sons Derek (12) and Trenton (8), and a twenty-one month old daughter, Grace.