Assistant Chief Brinkmeyer was returning from a disturbance call on October 29, 1939, when a taxi driver offered him a ride to the Middletown Police station. While on Central Avenue, a vehicle driven by a 28-year-old Middletown resident ran a stop sign at Clinton Street and the two vehicles collided at 2:20 a.m. Assistant Chief Brinkmeyer was seriously injured and rushed to the Middletown Hospital where he died fifteen hours later.
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