The Guardian reports:
A driver has been arrested and released on bail after an elderly man was killed in a road collision in Streatham last week.
Police said the 85-year-old man was mowed down by a van in Streatham Hill, near the junction with Telford Avenue, involving a van and a pedestrian, on Tuesday, April 22.
Sri Lankan-born Kaluarachige Kodituwakku, who lived nearby, later died at St George's Hospital.
We have highlighted the issue of speeding on the High Road at this point in a previous posts.
For more historical data (specifically around the point of the latest fatality) see:
http://streathamnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/crunching-collisions-on-streatham-high.html
For more recent speeding data see: http://streathamnews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/speeds-on-streatham-high-road.html
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