Fallen Deputy Remembered

"This is going to be a big loss for the community. Dave was very very much respected and well-liked throughout the community. He was born and raised here," said Sheriff Dick Rodgers on Monday evening.

Deputy Dave Grant died after being critically injured in a car wreck while responding to Monday's plane crash near Columbia.

A report from the California Highway Patrol says Grant had tried to avoid a truck that had started to turn in front of him, northbound on Highway 49 near Parrotts Ferry Road.

The deputy's patrol car scraped the front bumper of the turning pickup, then went off the west side of the roadway, and struck a tree on the west shoulder of the highway.

Grant was a 28-year veteran of law enforcement, and had been with the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department for fifteen of those years.

"He gives you his best. He enjoyed his job immensely. He was doing a profession which he absolutely loved. And he's the guy, if you ever needed help, he's the one you wanted responding," said Sheriff Rodgers at the Sheriff's Department office.

Sheriff Rodgers says it's been 37 years since the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department lost a deputy in the line of duty.

Deputy Dave Grant was 46 years old.

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