Fatal London crash may have been avoided but police were sent to wrong place, says coroner

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Three people were killed in the crash on the A13 in east London in July 2024

The Metropolitan Police has changed the way its 999 call handlers are trained after officers were sent to the wrong location of a crash before a subsequent collision which killed three people.

Sachin Kalia, 19, Davina Kaur Ruprah, 24, and Kiranjeet Sagoo, 36, were travelling westbound on the A13 in east London and died after a collision on the Wennington junction on July 15, 2024.

An inquest at Walthamstow coroner’s court found that the fatal collision could have been avoided “if the MPS attending officers had been provided with the correct location and arrived in sufficient time to clear the first incident”.

It also found the cause of death was a collision “caused by the driver losing control whilst driving at high speed in adverse weather conditions”.

The fatal collision could also have been avoided had a Ford Transit van had not been parked within the central reservation after the first incident, the jury added.

Mr Kalia, Ms Ruprah, and Mr Sagoo were pronounced dead at the scene in Wennington Marshes, Rainham.

The first crash occurred around 9.12pm, when the driver of a speeding BMW One series lost control and collided with a Ford Transit, which ended up on the central reservation, slightly protruding onto lane three.

A passing driver called the Met at 9.19pm and twice told them the site of the first crash was Wennington junction between the A13 and A1306.

Coroner Nina Persaud has sent a prevention of future deaths report, raising concerns about the failure to record the correct location.

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