Roll of Honor
Incident
In the early hours of the morning, as PC Carroll was driving a prisoner to Etal Lane police station in Newcastle, and travelling at seventy miles-per-hour, the drunken prisoner tried to stop the car by grabbing the handbrake, causing the vehicle to lose control, leave the road and overturn close to the junction of the A69 and A68 roads near Corbridge, Northumberland.
Although escorted by another officer, the prisoner was sitting alone, unrestrained, in the back seat of the patrol car.
Joseph died in Newcastle General Hospital from a serious head injury sustained in the accident.
The second officer was also injured in the accident but survived.
PC Carroll, a married man, had served as a police officer for twenty-four years.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Carroll served with the Northumbria Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Carroll.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Constable Joseph Geoffrey Carroll is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In ENG, 702 of 2,827 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 24.8% of this state's fallen. That is 24.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Northumbria Police, 2 of 11 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 18.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Felonious compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Joseph Geoffrey Carroll's cause is highlighted.
How Joseph Geoffrey Carroll Compares
When Felonious Deaths Occur
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