Constable
Victor Sommerville FORREST
YEAR OF DEATH
1957
JURISDICTION
Tasmania
DETAILS OF DEATH
Constable Forrest was stationed at Burnie. He was traveling on the Bass Highway towards Wivenhoe in a police radio patrol car when he lost control. Constable Forrest’s vehicle skidded and crashed through a fence near the Emu River bridge hitting one of the pylons that carried a pipeline across the river. He died in Burnie General Hospital three hours later.
