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Senior constables and trainee officers identified as truck crash victims

Posted: 2020-04-23 04:43:13

Original link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-23/police-officers-killed-in-eastern-freeway-crash-in-melbourne/12176182

Updated April 23, 2020 14:49:55

Bouquets of flowers are laid outside a police station on a sunny day.

Photo: People have left flowers outside Boroondara Police Station in Kew for the officers who died. (ABC News: Simon Tucci)

Two senior constables and two trainee officers have been identified as the four Victoria Police members killed in a truck crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway on Wednesday.

Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Constable Glen Humphris, Senior Constable Kevin King and Constable Josh Prestney died after being hit by a truck late yesterday afternoon.

It is the biggest loss of officer lives in a single event in Victoria Police's history.

More to come.

Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, death, disasters-and-accidents, road, melbourne-3000, kew-3101, vic

First posted April 23, 2020 14:43:13