A police force has honoured an officer who was a young father when he was killed in a crash near Worcester 35 years ago.
PC Paul Symonds died on this day 35 years ago when the patrol car, driven by WPC Janet Jones, overturned on the A422 Worcester to Stratford road on a bend near Spetchley Park Gardens.
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A spokesperson for West Mercia Police said: “Remembering PC Paul Symonds who was killed when the traffic patrol car, in which he was observer, crashed near Worcester, on this day in 1991.
He was 32 💙.”
We reported at the time how the officer, from Worcester, was married with a nine-month old baby. He had worked for the West Mercia Force for 14 years.
WPC Jones escaped serious injury following the crash when the Vauxhall Senator overturned on this day in 1991.
The road was described at the time as a blackspot where four people had died in the 11 years before 1991, the year of the fatal crash.
