2006 Sheriff Christopher Cooper Daniels, Sr.

Sheriff Christopher Daniels was killed in an accident while representing the Lake County Sheriff's Office in the fifth annual Battle of the Badges charity event held at the New Smyrna Speedway.

Sheriff Daniels and other sheriffs from around the state were competing in a charity school bus race at the speedway to raise money for the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch located locally in Barberville. The bus that Sheriff Daniels was driving was struck by another bus. Upon impact, he was ejected from the bus he was driving and was subsequently struck by another bus. It was his 47^th birthday.

Sheriff Daniels had served in law enforcement for over 20 years. He was survived by his wife Michelle and four children.

While at the time of his death Sheriff Daniels was not serving as a local law enforcement officer, the club felt since he was in our county assisting our local law enforcement to raise money for a local children’s charity that we should do something for the family, so we reached out to our members for voluntary donations to be pooled together and given to the family to help care for the wife and children he left behind.