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Police seek hit-and-run driver after fatal collision at Park Crescent

Police are seeking information about a driver who left the scene of a fatal collision at Park Crescent. Photo: The Fitzrovia News. The Metropolitan Police are appealing to the public for information after a hit-run-driver killed a man on Park Crescent in Marylebone. Detectives have launched an investigation after a man in his 40s was struck by a driver at around 7.35pm on Friday, 26 September…

Police seek hit-and-run driver after fatal collision at Park Crescent

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Road collision victims in London denied justice because 'very basic information is lost', City Hall told

Rory McCarron, a senior solicitor at Leigh Day, told the Police and Crime Committee that important evidence is not gathered. Image: GLA webcast. Victims of road collisions in London are being denied justice because of a lack of guidance for police collecting evidence, City Hall has heard. An inconsistent and uncertain approach to evidence-gathering by officers means that there is sometimes not…

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London Fire Brigade first to attend collision at Charlotte and Goodge Streets

Crews from Soho fire Station attend to injured cyclist at junction of Charlotte Street and Goodge Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Firefighters from Soho were the first of the emergency services to arrive to help a cyclist who was injured in a collision with a driver of a van at the junction of Charlotte Street and Goodge Street in Fitzrovia this morning. Crews from Soho fire station could be…

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Woman dies after being struck by bus in Margaret Street

Woman dies after being struck by bus in Margaret Street

The scene of the collision on Margaret Street near the junction of Regent Street. Image: BBC. A woman has died after being knocked down by a bus on Margaret Street just west of the junction with Regent Street. The collision happened on Monday 7 March at about 12:40pm, reported the BBC. Police officers, London Ambulance Service and the London Fire Brigade attended, but the pedestrian died…

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Four men arrested after driver smashes shopfront

Four men arrested after driver smashes shopfront #Fitzrovia #London #TottenhamCourtRoad

The incident scene on Tottenham Court Road on the morning of August Bank Holiday Monday. Photo: Tango. Four men have been arrested after a driver crashed a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) into a shopfront on Tottenham Court Road near the junction with Goodge Street. The driver crashed the Range Rover into the front of the Argos store in the early hours of the August bank holiday, reported My…

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Eyes on Tottenham Court Road temporary art

Eyes on Tottenham Court Road temporary art #Fitzrovia #London

Look up! But also look where you are going, especially if you are driving. Photo: A M Hanson. They might look like someone’s party balloons have floated off and got stuck in trees, or give you a feeling of paranoia and being watched after dark. But they are actually part of a London-wide temporary art installation, and more could follow this autumn. The inflatable eyeballs are designed by…

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TfL limits buses to 10mph on Tottenham Court Road after 'a number of collisions' between buses and pedestrians

TfL limits buses to 10mph on Tottenham Court Road after ‘a number of collisions’ between buses and pedestrians

More than five months after Tottenham Court Road changed from one-way to two-way traffic a woman has become the fourth person to be struck by a southbound bus on the same pedestrian crossing.

Four pedestrians have been hospitalised after being hit by southbound buses on the same pedestrian crossing since April.

The woman, who has not been named, was hit by a route 29 bus operated by Arriva driven…

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