Lewis Entwistle

Died

22 December 1981

Age

Rank

Sergeant

Force

Greater Manchester Police

Cause

Road Traffic Collision (RTC)

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed as he went to speak to the driver of a car that he had just pulled in when a lorry drifted onto the hard shoulder and collided with the car.

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed as he went to speak to the driver of a car that he had just pulled in when a lorry drifted onto the hard shoulder and collided with the car.

Circumstances

Sergeant Entwistle was on duty on the M62 Motorway in Whitefield, when he stopped a car on the hard shoulder of the Motorway behind the Police Range Rover. Sergeant Entwistle went to speak to the driver of the, as he was doing so an articulated lorry drifted onto the hard shoulder and collided with the Cortina, which immediately burst into flames killing Sergeant Entwistle and the occupants of the car.

Sergeant Entwistle had just indicated to the driver of a Ford Cortina to pull in behind the officer’s police Range Rover on the M62 Motorway in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, when an articulated lorry drifted onto the hard shoulder and collided with the car which immediately burst into flames.

The occupants of the car were also killed.