The Beryl R. Newman Memorial Bridge over Urbanna Creek was closed Saturday for 15 minutes as participants on the annual Police Unity Tour stopped on the bridge to honor two local fallen police officers.
The group comes to Urbanna annually to honor the late Middlesex County Deputy Robert Talmadge Hicks and Gloucester County’s late Executive Lieutenant Terry L. Singleton.
Dep. Hicks drowned after his police cruiser ran off the Urbanna bridge on May 20, 1984 while responding to a driver in distress call on an early Sunday morning. Singleton collapsed and died from cardiac arrest while participating in a physical training exercise for the county’s Special Operations Unit in 1993.
