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Shortly after Shatha Ali's death in Holborn, another fatality on a one-way system, either on the west or east side of this junction:
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An investigation is underway following a fatal road traffic collision in Newham.
Police were called at approximately 13:35hrs on Monday, 21 March to reports of a van in collision with an e-scooter in Green Street, E13.
Officers and London Ambulance Service attended.
The rider of the e-scooter, a girl believed aged 14, was treated at the scene but died from her injuries.
https://news.met.police.uk/news/fatal-collision-in-newham-444527
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I rode past the scene on Lambeth Bridge North side where the deceased and her 3 fur kids were struck down last weekend, blue tent was up and all roads leading to the roundabout was shut to motorised vehicles.
Seen the blue tent before and I was hoping for the best.
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This sounds horrible
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64375555
Very sad and very odd - bus driver allegedly leaving scene of fatal collision. RIP unknown pedestrian.
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Another hit and run, six people injured on Green Lanes yesterday.
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This is one of the horror scenarios, when a car goes off the road, quite often in a motorway-like environment, and it's not noticed until much later, so that whoever may initially have survived a crash doesn't get help:
It happens along motorways from time to time. There have been cases in which there was no damage to crash barriers because a driver for some reason shot over them and their remains weren't discovered until months later.
RIP.
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Having read various news reports, it's probably most likely that they were in this copse of trees:
It's really awful about this crash that the three who died could perhaps have been saved had they been discovered earlier.
It is very reminiscent of the crashes in rural areas of Europe in which disproportionately young people die who were or had been on nights out. I think these were worst in the 80s and 90s, but I haven't kept track of what has happened since.
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I came across a large roadside memorial related to an incident on the 20th March, with photographs of the victim, but no name, and a lot of flowers and lights here last night:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/a13-traffic-live-major-road-26510759
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/limehouse-crash-man-30-dies-26513442
https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2023/03/motorcyclist-dies-after-police-chase-in-tower-hamlets/
Just another case in which there is little independent reporting and those news web-sites only really repeat what the police released about the incident.
RIP.
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This goes well here.
https://twitter.com/AutoBant/status/1641718128999538689?t=pzLv0AQZQc2QOmurvBKLlQ&s=19
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I wrote, two posts up:
I came across a large roadside memorial
Here's an article on the crash that names the victim:
Rayhan Miah, aged 30 from Camden, and formerly known as Alamin Kazi, died after the motorcycle he was on hit the kerb before crashing into street railings in Commercial Road, E3 at around 2.20am on March 20.
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Mr Miah had been jailed under his former name for being part of a “prolific” family gang stealing up to ten motorbikes a day which were then used to rob mobile phones and cameras from pedestrians across Islington, Camden and Westminster.
He was 23 when he was jailed for three and a half years after admitting two charges of robbery, charges of handling stolen motorbikes and scooters and a mobile phone and two charges of theft of a scooter and motorbike and attempted theft of a camera.
Miah and his brothers Khalid Kazi, then 22, and Shalim Kazi, then 19, admitted a total of 25 charges of moped-enabled robbery, stealing mopeds and selling stolen mopeds between them.
There's no suggestion that he had re-offended at the time of his death.
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You know what I mean--I was referring to the nature of his past offending, which was terrible, but everyone deserves another chance after serving a sentence. So far, there has been no suggestion that he had turned to crime again. Perhaps that will change, perhaps it won't.
Whether or not he 'failed to stop'--we still don't know much about what happened. The inquest hasn't taken place yet, so any speculation is futile at this stage. The bare description may not capture what happened. At any rate, whatever happened clearly happened mere moments before his death and was part of the cause of it, so I certainly won't undertake any rumination on whether that was 're-offending'.
I've posted quite a lot about police chases. The figure I remember from way back is that 1% of road traffic fatalities were then caused by the emergency services, although I don't know if that's still accurate; there have been a lot of high-profile deaths in and from police chases in recent years.
From what I've seen, I generally consider the risk posed to the public, and in this instance, the rider, by attempts to stop fast-moving drivers and riders in London, unacceptable. I'm sure there are exceptions.
I do hope some more information comes out in the inquest that can help us understand what happened here.
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Here's another puzzling crash:
If it happened here, it happened in a small loop road in a kind of almshouses-like arrangement:
As it's just the write-up of a police press release, as usual these days, there's no other information yet. There was another crash a few years ago in Mitcham, in which the driver of a scaffolding lorry killed someone while trying to park, in which the crash location was initially given as Linden Place, a small cul-de-sac, but was later revised to say it actually took place on the main street past Linden Place, so perhaps that could also be the case here.
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15882764/
No idea if we can expect a follow-up article that clarifies the circumstances, but we'll see.
Either way, RIP.
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Five arrests in this case:
As part of the investigation four men, two aged 23, another aged 28 and a 31-year-old, were arrested on April 20 on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and violent disorder.
RIP Isabelle Stewart.
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The woman who was hit by a police motorcycle escort rider in Earl's Court has died, sadly. No information on the circumstances of the incident, just write-ups of a press release, this time by the IOPC, it seems.
RIP Helen Holland.
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Another one of those fortunately rare crashes in which people on foot get hit on motorways. Here we have a hit-and-run and the potential carelessness of an adult in the tragic death of a child, Callum Rycroft, who was 12.
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Additional info…
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A bizarre and tragic crash in which one woman died. The attention-grabbing aspect of this is the aerial imagery of the maize field that those who caused the crash drove through before veering onto the A143 near a village called Earsham in Norfolk and hitting another vehicle, whose driver did not survive.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23725872.drone-images-field-fatal-a143-police-chase-crash/
ITV has a video following the trail through the maize:
It took place here:
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Standard article about the above incident
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/regent-street-fatal-bus-crash-woman-killed-london-b986518.html