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| Experts investigate police crash | Experts investigate police crash |
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| An investigation is under way into a car crash in which four police officers died in County Down. | An investigation is under way into a car crash in which four police officers died in County Down. |
| Their vehicle crashed and burst into flames on the Warrenpoint to Rostrevor Road as they were answering a call at about 0400 GMT on Sunday. | Their vehicle crashed and burst into flames on the Warrenpoint to Rostrevor Road as they were answering a call at about 0400 GMT on Sunday. |
| They have been named locally as Declan Greene, Kenny Irvine, Kevin Gorman and James Magee - all from the Mourne area. | They have been named locally as Declan Greene, Kenny Irvine, Kevin Gorman and James Magee - all from the Mourne area. |
| Their deaths bring to seven the total number of people who died on Northern Ireland's roads over the weekend. | |
| Assistant Chief Constable Judith Gillespie said her "heart went out" to all the families who had lost loved ones as the result of the recent road crashes. | |
| She said speculation about the cause of the crash which killed the four policemen was unhelpful at this stage. | |
| "There has been a lot of speculation about what did or didn't happen," she said. | |
| "In my judgement, things happened so quickly that there was probably nothing they could do." | |
| Chief Constable, Sir Hugh Orde, led the tributes to the policemen on Sunday, describing them as "four fine police officers". |