By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times
SEATTLE, Wash — The day Seattle police Officer Tom Springer was picked for the department’s motorcycle squad was one of the best of his life.
Officer Springer had been a motorcycle enthusiast as long as his family could remember. He even planned to spend his retirement motoring around the country on his Honda Goldwing. But on Monday (Aug. 6), the 57-year-old Federal Way man was killed in a motorcycle accident on Interstate 80, about 37 miles west of Laramie, Wyo.
He would have celebrated his 23rd anniversary with the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday.