Roll of Honor
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
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Constable Stuart Simpson 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 SCT, 149 of 308 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 48.4% of this state's fallen. That is 17.4 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Strathclyde Police, 19 of 35 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 54.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Stuart Simpson's cause is highlighted.
How Stuart Simpson Compares
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