2022-07-10 Pedicab passenger down (fatality) and pedicab driver down, New Kent Road

I can't see a thread about this collision in the summer. Tragically, one of two pedicab passengers lost her life, and the driver was badly injured. The original news story is here:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pedicab-crash-london-southwark-new-kent-road-tesco-police-b1011479.html

Here is an update on the trial of the car driver, which has just concluded:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/drunk-driver-jailed-after-hitting-rickshaw-and-killing-woman-out-for-birthday-b1036784.html

Luis Balcazar Soto, 24, did not have a licence and was twice over the drink-drive limit when the silver Kia he was driving smashed into the pedicab, throwing Sophie Strickland, 31, from the vehicle.

[...]

The rickshaw's driver Tanzir Ahmed, who is in his 30s, was seriously injured while Ms Strickland was killed.

Mr Ahmed had stopped in New Kent Road so Ms Strickland and her friend Jade Redford, who was not harmed in the crash, could use the cash machine at a Tesco Express supermarket.

[...]

The court heard Balcazar Soto has four previous convictions for 10 offences, including drink driving and two counts of driving whilst disqualified within 10 days of one another.

He pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, acting in breach of a restraining order - by seeing his former partner - and breaching a suspended sentence.

Judge Deborah Taylor has now jailed him for a total of nine years and nine months, and banned him from driving for 10 years and nine months.

BBC story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63474033

The original reporting suggested, apparently based on witness statements, that only one of the two women had got out of the pedicab to use the cash machine, although in court it must have been said that both did.

Note that the second article contains an incorrect link to a different collision.

This is where it happened:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4941832,-0.0928643,3a,49.5y,70.09h,84.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdIuPOyZtcQU7JVOnQ-Esaw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

RIP Sophie Strickland. The article does not give an update on Tanzir Ahmed's condition. Here's hoping that he is able to recover well.

Another write-up with some additional comments from the judge:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/luis-balcazar-soto-jailed-pedicab-crash-sophie-strickland-b1037182.html