Roll of Honor
Incident
PC McIntyre was fatally injured as he and a colleague responded to an early morning report of an iron bar lying across two lanes of the Mersey Tunnel.
Having already brought the traffic to a halt, Derek left his vehicle to remove the object but, as he did so, a 22-ton lorry and trailer with defective brakes failed to stop and struck a private car and the police Land Rover before hitting the officer and dragging him 120 feet.
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- July 23, 2026
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable McIntyre served with the Mersey Tunnel Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable McIntyre.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Constable Derek Ian McIntyre 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%.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Derek Ian McIntyre's cause is highlighted.
How Derek Ian McIntyre Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Derek Ian McIntyre is highlighted in Nov.