Mark Joseph KOHUTEK

AKA ?

Late of ?

Father to Nathan KOHUTEK # 46086

NSW Redfern Police Academy Class # 152

NSW Police Cadet # 3063

New South Wales Police Force

Uniform # 6668  

Regd. #  17394

Rank:  NSW Police Cadet – commenced 8 July 1974 ( aged 16 years, 7 months, 5 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed  3 October 1976 ( 18 years, 10 months, 0 days )  

Constable – appointed  3 October 1977

Constable 1st Class – appointed ?

Final Rank = Constable 1st Class

Stations: ?, Traffic Branch – Nth Sydney HWP – Death

Service: From   8 July 1974   to   4 March 1982 = 7 years, 7 months, 24 days Service

Age at Retirement / Leaving:  24 years, 3 months, 1 days

Time in Retirement:  0

Awards:  No Find on Australian Honours

Born:  Tuesday  3 December 1957 in Lambeth, England 

Died on:  Thursday  4 March 1982  about 5am

Age:  24 yrs  3 mths  1 day

Cause:  Injuries, MVA – Rider – Police Bike – wet weather

Event location:  Berowra Tollway, Mt White, NSW

( approx. 1km south of Mt White exit – south bound )

Event date:  Thursday  4 March 1982 about 5am

Funeral date: ? March 1982   

Funeral location: ?

Wake location: ?

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at:  Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe, NSW

Memorial Garden 10, Position 411

Memorial located at: ?

MARK IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

exact Grave location: TBA

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May they forever Rest In Peace

About 5am on 4 March, 1982 Constable Kohutek was riding a police solo motor cycle along the Berowra Tollway between Newcastle and Sydney on his journey to the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the ‘bridge lane change’ system. As he was negotiating a sweeping bend, in the rain, about a kilometre south of the Mt White exit the cycle crashed into a rock median strip. As a result Constable Kohutek sustained fatal head and internal injuries.

The constable was born in 1957 and joined the New South Wales Police Force as a cadet on 8 July, 1974. He was sworn in on 3 October, 1976. At the time of his death he was attached to the Traffic Branch, North Sydney ( under the Sydney Harbour Bridge ).

Approx. location of collision:  [codepeople-post-map]

                                                     NSW Police Cadets – Class 9, Phase III ( L – R )     Back Row: Phil VICKERY, Mick COWNIE, Walter KOENIG, Greg CALLANDER ( 17463 ), Glen MORRIS, Mike KNOWLES # 17558 ( R.I.P. ), Ivor PEDERSEN

Middle Row: Mark KOHUTEK # 17394 ( R.I.P. ), Trev WALTER # 17459, J. KIRK, Steve CORRY, Glen PORTCH, Colin BELL, R. GREEN

Front Row: Anthony TANOS, R. BROWN, Acting Sgt Len HARRIS ( Drill Instructor ), Sgt 2/c William ‘Bill’ COMAN ( Instructor ), Sgt 3/c Keith JOHNSON # 7887 ( R.I.P. ), Andrew MARRIOTT, Andrew WARDROP 

First Posted  22 September 2013

Updated 2 January 2025 with Class photo