Unnamed VicPol member
Victoria Police Force
Regd. # ?
Rank: Constable
Stations: ?, Moonee Ponds
Service: From ? to ?
Awards: ?
Born: ?
Died on: Sunday 21 February 2016 about noon
Cause: Motor vehicle accident – rider – off duty
Location: Warburton-Woods Point Rd, Reefton, Victoria
Age: 36
Funeral date: ?TBA
Funeral location: ?TBA
Buried at: ?TBA
Memorial at: ?TBA
Funeral location: ?TBA
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A policeman has been killed in a motorcycle crash in the Yarra Ranges.
The off-duty constable was riding along the Warburton-Woods Point Road at Reefton with another man on Sunday.
Police believe the riders, on separate motorbikes, attempted to overtake a northbound car shortly after 12pm.
The first rider overtook safely, but witnesses told investigators the second rider clipped an oncoming car.
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He lost control of his bike and was hit by the car he had just overtaken.
Emergency services called to the scene could not revive him.
The 36-year-old, believed to have recently graduated from the police academy, was based at the Moonee Ponds police station.
He was a father of two.
Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives, who probe fatal crashes involving police as a matter of course, are investigating.
It follows the death of another off-duty officer in a motorcycle crash back in October.
Senior Constable Kate McLeod, a Sale police officer, was hit by a car when she was riding a motorbike on the Princess Highway at Lindenow South.
A Bairnsdale man, 30-year-old Patrick Mattu, was charged with culpable driving and dangerous driving causing death.