Roll of Honor
Incident
Having commenced duty at 10:00am, Inspector Tullett was killed while on special patrol duty when he was thrown from the motorcycle on which he was riding as the pillion passenger, after it struck a coal lorry in West Wickham Road, South East London.
The driver of the motorcycle, another police officer, was overtaking the lorry when it suddenly turned right into Bridle Road. He attempted to avoid the vehicle by also turning into Bridle Road but failed to do so, and struck the side of the lorry, throwing Arthur underneath it, with one of its wheels passing over his chest.
He was rushed to Croydon General Hospital but was declared dead on arrival at 11:30am, having died en route. He had suffered eight fractured ribs and severe lung damage.
At the time, Inspector Tullett had served in Bromley for about a year, having previously served in the Woolwich Division.
He left a wife and three children, the eldest being sixteen years of age.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Inspector Tullett served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Inspector Tullett.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Inspector Arthur Victor Tullett is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ENG, 1,349 of 2,827 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 47.7% of this state's fallen. That is 16.7 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Metropolitan Police, 306 of 729 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 42% of this agency's fallen.
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