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Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver

Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver

Traffic accident in Victoria, Australia
🗓️ 22 April 2020

On 22 April 2020, a truck driver under the influence of drugs, Mohinder Singh, crashed his truck into a Porsche 911 and two police cars on the Eastern Freeway, in the suburb of Kew East, Australia, killing four police officers who were on routine highway patrol. Prior to the incident, the officers had pulled over the Porsche's driver, Richard Pusey, for speeding. After the truck hit the officers, Pusey filmed them for several minutes with vulgar commentary as they lay dying, before fleeing.

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