The funeral has taken place for a 19-year-old police officer who died two days after she was hit by a car while on duty.<\/p>\n
PC Jess Turnbull had been sent to the scene of a collision on the A189 Spine Road in Cramlington, Northumberland, on 8 June when she was struck by a vehicle unconnected to the crash. She died in hospital two days later.<\/p>\n
At Newcastle Cathedral on Friday, a police pipe band played a drum lament followed by Amazing Grace as her funeral procession arrived ahead of a service attended by about 600 mourners. <\/p>\n
Police officers from across the UK lined up along the route with their standards dipped to the ground as their colleague’s coffin passed by.<\/p>\n
On what is normally a road full of traffic, Mosley Street fell silent as PC Turnbull’s family made their way through.<\/p>\n
That silence was broken by a shouted order from a police officer in dress uniform for fellow officers lining the route to stand to attention.<\/p>\n
The coffin, draped in a union flag and with a police hat placed on top, was carried into the church by more uniformed officers, passing attendees including Northumbria Police Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine, who saluted.<\/p>\n
PC Turnbull’s parents followed the coffin into the church ahead of many more family members and dozens of police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral has taken place for a 19-year-old police officer who died two days after she was hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684395","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\/684395","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=684395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}