Peter William CARTER
Peter William CARTER
aka ‘ Carts ‘
Late of Corrimal
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class 162
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 18582
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 2 April 1979 ( aged 20 years, 5 months, 1 day )
Constable 1st Class – appointed 29 August 1984
Final Rank = Constable 1st Class
Stations: ?, Sydney Inner City Cycles, St Ives Driver Training, Warilla HWP – Death
Service: From ? ? pre April 1979? to 24 August 1988 = 9+ years Service
Awards: No find on It’s An Honour
Born: Saturday 1 November 1958
Died on: Wednesday 24 August 1988 about 8.40pm
Age: 29 years, 9 months & 23 days
Cause: Motor Vehicle Collision – Police Bike – Rider
Event location: Five Islands Rd, Cringila just south of the right sweeping bend ( southbound ) from Springhill Rd and just prior to Cringila Railway Stn
Event date: Wednesday 24 August 1988
Funeral date: ? ? ?
Funeral location: ?, Berkeley
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: Cremated
Memorial located at: ?
CARTS IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
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May they forever Rest In Peace
About 8.40pm on 24 August, 1988 Constable Carter and Constable Eric Renes were riding police motor cycles in Five Islands Road, Cringila in pursuit of a motor vehicle. As the cycles travelled around a sweeping right hand bend Constable Carter‘s cycle became unstable and despite his best efforts left the roadway. The cycle collided with a light pole and the constable was killed instantly.
The constable was born in 1958 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 2 April, 1979. At the time of his death he was attached to the Warilla Highway Patrol.
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Deadly toll
November 6, 2004
Alone in his patrol car, Chris Thornton had the police siren flashing as he chased a white sedan through Woy Woy.
Thornton, 35, a highway patrolman, had been in the force for 15 years. He was, his mother says, “the best driver I have ever seen”.
The reason for the chase that night in April 2002 is unknown. Both cars were seen travelling at high speed. Thornton was about 50 metres behind.
Meanwhile, Leonard Rowley, 56, an unlicensed driver, was driving to his local KFC to pick up dinner. He saw the first car flash past and judged – wrongly – that he had time to turn out in front of the patrol car. Thornton tried to avoid Rowley’s car but clipped the back, veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit a power pole.
Thornton died on the spot, which is marked by a permanent stainless-steel cross. Rowley later received a suspended two-year sentence.
“His life from the age of 12 was about helping people,” says Thornton’s mother, Freada Thornton. “He was in the surf club and he was there to rescue people and then he went into the force and he was doing the same thing.” His father, Barry Thornton, says: “He loved life. He had been in Gosford for 15 years and was so popular with the community there.”
Police pursuits are, says Barry, a necessary evil: “If they don’t catch the criminals there will be more deaths on the roads. The ones that they’re in pursuit of are the idiots that have done the wrong thing to start with.”
But pursuits have come at a cost to the NSW Police Department. Fifteen officers have died as a result of high-speed chases, beginning with the death of Constable George Boore in 1937.
Details provided by the NSW Police Association show a steady stream of fatalities involving cars and motorcycles. The full list of casualties is as follows:
April 2, 1937: Constable George Boore;
June 2, 1954: Constable Cecil Sewell;
November 14, 1958: Constable Brian Boaden;
December 23, 1958: Constable William Lord;
October 14, 1961: Constable James Kinnane;
September 7, 1963: Constable Colin Robb;
December 2, 1976: Constable Terry Moncur;
January 3, 1985: Constable Wayne Rixon;
July 25, 1985: Detective-Constable Steven Tier;
October 20, 1987: Constable Themelis Macarounas;
August 24, 1988: Constable Peter Carter;
June 13, 1989: Constable Peter Figtree;
June 14, 1989: Senior Constable Glenn Rampling;
January 14, 2001: Senior Constable James Affleck;
April 13, 2002: Senior Constable Christopher Thornton.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Police-Pursuits/Deadly-toll/2004/11/05/1099547386960.html
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My photo from about 1981. Peter and I were engaged at this time and later married. We divorced in 1986 but still remained friends up until the day he died. Thea xxxx
Thea,
Peter will always be remembered with affection, and never forgotten.
It’s been almost 35 years now.
Thanks for all the good times together, Peter.
Ian
No way is the above list complete, many, many more names should have been on there.Police Association has not done a great job there supplying that list.