Peter William CARTER

aka ‘ Carts ‘

Late of Corrimal

NSW Redfern Police Academy Class 162

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  18582

Rank:  Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 15 January 1979 ( aged 20 years, 2 months, 14 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed 2 April 1979 ( aged 20 years, 5 months, 1 day )

Constable – appointed 2 April 1979

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 15 January 1979  to  24 August 1988 = 9 years, 7 months, 9 days 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, NSW 

Wake location: ?

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at:  Cremated

Memorial located at: ?

CARTS IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

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May they forever Rest In Peace

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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.

 

Carts in 1980 with Inner City Cycles. Cst 1/C Peter Carter, Warilla HWP. Playing Police Football for Wollongong on 20 April 1983 at Rose Bay. PETER CARTER & JAMIE WILSON-CALLANDER JET SKIING AT BERKELEY HARBOUR. WOLLONGONG POLICE FOOTBALL PETER CARTER WITH MARK JONES IN BACK GROUND MARK JONES & PETER CARTER WITH KID’s FROM YELLOW ROCK (ALBION PARK) M.M.C.C.M. Motor Cross Club 1988

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Deadly toll

By Jonathan Pearlman
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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