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Cop dies crushed under van.


A POLICE driver was killed after he was thrown through the window of his van and crushed rushing to a 999 call.

PC Christopher Hart's vehicle collided with a VW Polo on Saturday night, flinging him half way out of the window. It flipped over, trapping trapping, most broadly, the use of mechanical or deceptive devices to capture, kill, or injure animals. It may be applied to the practice of using birdlime to capture birds, lobster pots to trap lobsters, and seines to catch fish.  him.

The 40-year-old officer, who leaves a son of six, was pronounced dead at the scene in Openshaw, Gtr Manchester.

His police passenger and three people in the Polo were slightly hurt.

His boss Chief Supt Jon Rush said: "This is a tragic incident. His shift were unable to carry on after it happened and they were allowed to go home."

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 after his police car careered into a family of six in their garden in Bolton, Gtr Manchester, on Friday.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Jan 14, 2008
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