Just so devastating for the family
A 'truly brilliant' police officer killed in a catastrophic M6 accident would still be alive if officers were not driving BMW vehicles with a history of hundreds of startling failures, his widow has said.
READ MORE: 'Truly brilliant' police officer killed on M6 after BMW engine fault that was known about for four years “Five to seven times a month these cars were failing... more than 60 times a year... for four years. Why were police officers never told this? It was incredibly dangerous for officers. It was incredibly dangerous for the public.
PC Dumphreys, 47 suffered fatal injuries when his car – a BMW 330 - veered across the motorway and crashed near Carlisle on the afternoon of January 26 in 2020. The inquest in Carlisle heard that at the time of the tragedy, the officer was responding to an emergency call for back-up and that he did nothing to contribute to the accident.
The inquest heard that from 2014 to 2017, five to seven crankshaft bearing failures had occurred in each month in UK police vehicles. Coroner Robert Cohen described this as a “startlingly high failure rate”.
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