{"id":489495,"date":"2026-03-22T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489495\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:46:10","slug":"kent-police-officer-dies-after-crash-during-emergency-callout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489495\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police officer dies after crash during emergency callout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An officer has died following a serious car crash while responding to an emergency call, police have said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PC Bradley Corke, 27, died on Saturday after he was critically injured in the collision in Farningham, near Swanley, on Thursday, said Kent Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crash involved a marked Ford Focus police car and a Volkswagen Scirocco on the westbound A20 London Road, at the junction with Button Street, at about 19:45 GMT. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A colleague, who was in the same vehicle, remains critically ill in hospital and a member of the public in the second vehicle continues to be treated for serious injuries, the force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An officer has died following a serious car crash while responding to an emergency call, police have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}