Police have issued an appeal for help to find a missing 12-year-old boy.
21.04.2023 - 18:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
When rookie police officer Sarah De Meulemeester stepped on the accelerator of her Peugeot 308 patrol car to answer a 999 call, it set off a train of events that would devastate the lives of so many people.
By the time she got out of her car in Adswood, Stockport, on a dark and wet evening of Boxing Day 2020, a boy of 15 was laying critically injured in the road.
Khia Whitehead, a popular lad and a keen footballer, would spend months at Manchester Royal Infirmary with his parents Laura and Duane at his bedside. He survived but there was a terrible cost. He was paralysed and left in a 'persistent vegetative state' following a catastrophic brain injury.
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He will require 24-hour specialist nursing care for the rest of his life.
The young lad was with a pal at 9pm. He had seen one patrol car, with its blues and twos going, whiz by and, not seeing either of the two other cars following, he stepped into Garners Lane.
He was hit by the Peugoeot, which had been travelling at speeds up to 61mph despite the speed limit of 30mph on Garners Lane and other roads on the way from the station at Cheadle Heath to Adswood.
The trauma of the crash was felt far and wide. It was a shocking incident, especially when it emerged that PC De Meulemeester had no more powers on the roads than any other regular road user.
The 26-year-old rookie cop, who only had a 'standard' driving authority, had to stick to the speed limit like everyone else. She certainly wasn't allowed to drive the wrong way around a traffic island to navigate her way around another vehicle, as she did in the moments before the crash.
It didn't matter that she had learned that she and her colleagues had been
Police have issued an appeal for help to find a missing 12-year-old boy.
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