A memorial to honour five police officers killed in a coach crash at a roundabout in Wakefield is being planned.
PCs David Bulleyment, 31, Eric Renshaw, 45, and Colin Ross, 33, WPC Lillian Sullivan, 41, and WPS Elizabeth Burton, 40, all died when their vehicle overturned at Newton Hill in May 1978. The coach had been carrying the officers and dozens of their colleagues to a Police Federation conference in Blackpool. Another 23 were injured. An inquest was told the coach’s brakes had failed.
“There will be a memorial to all the police officers that were killed in that tragic coach crash in May 1978. “We will be marking that with a ceremony.” Councillor David Pickersgill asked: “I think it is unfortunate that it has taken us this long to do a proper memorial to the police coach crash. “I think it would be good to have plenty of notice so that we can have a wider community attendance.
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