'Truly brilliant' police officer Nicholas Dumphreys killed on M6 after BMW engine fault that was known about for four years
A police officer was killed instantly when his car flipped on the M6 after a fault in the BMW he was driving, that had been known about by the car manufacturer for four years.
An inquest into PC Dumphreys' death, held earlier this year, concluded on Tuesday with Assistant Coroner Robert Cohen revealing that BMW had first known about the fault with the M57 engine in 2016. The inquest heard that since 2014, five to seven crankshaft bearing failures had been reported each month which the coroner described as a "startlingly high failure rate".
"Some deposited on the road and wheels. Other oil ignited. The oil on the road and wheels caused the car to veer. He attempted to correct but there was nothing he could have done to recover the situation. The vehicle swerved and left the road and landed on its roof. Passers-by made heroic efforts to rescue PC Dumphreys but their efforts were in vain."
Crankshaft bearings in existing Cumbria Police vehicles fitted with the BMW M57 engine have since been replaced. Although criticisms were made of both Cumbria Police and BMW during the course of the inquest, the coroner said he was satisfied that the service history of the vehicle was appropriate and that maintenance issues reported about the BMW driven by PC Dumphreys before his crash were not connected with the failing which caused the engine to fail on that fateful day in January 2020.
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