Stuart Simpson
Police Constable

Stuart Simpson

Accident
End of Watch March 28, 1994
Age 26
Gender Male

Incident

Having joined the police in 1988 he was initially posted to R Division before moving to the Support Unit. As an Authorised Firearms Officer he was on night shift crewing an Armed Response Vehicle with his colleague travelling on the M8 motorway when around 2am they were returning to their base in Springburn.

Around this time police received multiple reports of a car travelling against the flow of traffic on the motorway. It was believed the driver drove the wrong way on to the Bothwell Street off-ramp, despite two sets of two signposts indicating that the road was for east-bound traffic only and should not be entered at that point.

An off duty police officer, who spotted the car on motorway while travelling home, called police headquarters in Pitt Street from a motorway emergency telephone to report the vehicle travelling on the wrong carriageway. A radio alert was put out to police officers on duty but, as this was being done, police at the traffic department in Meiklewood Road, near Helen Street, received news of a serious collision on the motorway nearby.

The car drove directly head on into PC Simpson’s patrol car. It is thought they had little chance of avoiding the oncoming car. He sustained fatal injuries, his colleague was seriously injured but later recovered.

He was married with a 2 year old daugther.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Simpson served with the Strathclyde Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Simpson.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Strathclyde Police
Location SCT
Platform Identity spd.glg.eng.gb.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 28, 1994
Age 26
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident
Cause Detail Road Traffic Collision (RTC)

The Sacrifice · Accident

Stuart is one of 1,673 officers lost to accidents in United Kingdom, 44.1% of the 3,791 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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In 1994, 23 officers in United Kingdom were lost to accidents, the 3rd heaviest of 194 years on record. The heaviest was 1940, with 40.

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Who

Stuart was 26. Of the 1,612 lost to accidents in United Kingdom whose age is recorded, half were between 27 and 43; the middle age was 35.

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When

March holds 7.9% of these deaths in United Kingdom; November holds the most, 9.9%. Mondays: 13.4%.

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Accident deaths account for 44.1% of all 3,791 deaths in United Kingdom, the most common cause.

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His people

Strathclyde Police has 35 officers remembered here, Stuart among them.

Police Constable Stuart Simpson

Strathclyde Police · End of Watch March 28, 1994

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