Steven Alan Hamilton Stimpson

Police Constable
Humberside Police
Died 26 January 1998, aged 33

Killed in a road accident, while on patrol in the early morning, when his traffic patrol car left the road, crashed through a fence and overturned, landing on its roof in a field near Tickton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Alan Houghton

Police Constable
Lancashire Constabulary
Died 17 March 1998, aged 50

While on mobile patrol at Pilling on 15 March, he collapsed at the wheel of his police vehicle, which then left the road, collided with a stone wall and overturned; the officer having suffered a cerebral haemorrhage from which he died in hospital two days later.

John Bonelle

Police Constable
West Mercia Constabulary
Died 6 May 1998, aged 34

Killed in a road accident, while taking part in an advanced police motorcycle training course, when he lost control of his machine, careered off the road and crashed, at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.

David Hopkins

Police Constable
West Mercia Constabulary
Died 28 May 1998, aged 41

Fatally injured, while acting as an outrider on a motorcycle escort for a national cycle race, when he was involved in a head-on collision with a car  as he rode ahead of the cyclists on the A449 near Malvern.

Ian Raymond Herbert

Detective Constable
Metropolitan Police
Died 11 June 1998, aged 45

Killed in a road accident, whilst engaged on a training exercise with the Stolen Vehicle Unit of the Organised Crime Group, when his unmarked police car was in collision with a lorry near Sevenoaks in Kent.

Michael John Brown

Police Constable
Ministry of Defence Police
Died 27 July 1998, aged 34

Killed when he was accidentally thrown into the water, from a rigid inflatable boat, during a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

James Heaton

Police Constable
Humberside Police
Died 2 August 1998, aged 30

Fatally injured when he lost control of his Traffic Patrol car, which left the road and crashed on the A1079 bypass road near Beverley, East Yorkshire, while responding on an emergency call to the scene of a bicycle accident.

Robert Foster

Police Constable
Essex Police
Died 10 August 1998, aged 44

As a force firearms instructor he was taking part in a rifleman's training course with the Lancashire Constabulary, when he collapsed and died of heart failure whilst at the practice site in Yorkshire.

Frank A. O`Reilly

Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 6 October 1998, aged 30 

Died as a result of severe head injuries received on 5 September, when he was struck by shrapnel from a blast bomb thrown into police lines, during loyalist disturbances in the Corcrain Estate following the banning of  the Orange Order's march through Portadown, Co.Armagh.

Stuart Ross

Police Constable
Warwickshire Constabulary
Died 10 October 1998, aged 34

Killed while acting as the observer in the East Midlands Air Support Unit helicopter, which crashed shortly after take off when it flew into fog and collided with trees, near its base at Husbands Bosworth, Northamptonshire.

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