More than £400,000 has been raised for the families of two police officers killed when joyriders crashed into them on a dual carriageway.
PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died early on Saturday when a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way down the A66 near Middlesbrough crashed head-on into their police car.
Two GoFundMe pages have been created for the officers’ families, with Cleveland Police Federation’s effort raising more than £365,000 as of this morning.
The federation said its officers had ‘paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty’ and left behind ‘heartbroken loved ones’.
It added the funds raised
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