Police response to locate a missing man – Northamptonshire Police, October 2021

On 22 October 2021 at 11:40pm, a member of the public contacted Northamptonshire police reporting that a man was walking along the A45 carriageway near Earls Barton, Wellingborough. It was recorded in the incident log that he was walking against the traffic near to a petrol garage. The call was graded as requiring an emergency response. At 11.51pm, two officers were assigned to the incident and searched both sides of the carriageway for approximately 10 minutes. The officers updated that they could not find the man and attended another incident. The initial incident was then closed. On 23 October 2021 at 12:30am, a member of the public contacted police stating the man was in the carriageway and stated that they nearly hit him. The same response officers were assigned to the incident. At 12:45am, it was reported that the man had been struck by a car driven by a member …