Deadly crash may have been avoided if police were sent to the right place sooner

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An error which led to police being sent to the wrong junction was partly to blame for a fatal crash that killed three people in east London, an inquest found (Picture: Google…

A crash that killed three people on a major A-road may have been avoided had police not been given an incorrect location, an inquest has found.

The Met Police has changed the way 999 operators are trained following the fatal incident, in which emergency responders were too late to prevent the crash on the A13 in east London on July 15, 2024.

Officers were first alerted to a collision involving a speeding BMW One series and a Ford Transit van at 9.12pm.

An inquest heard that a call handler was told by a passing driver the incident had occurred at the Wennington interchange between the A13 and the A1306.

Sachin Kalia, 19, Davina Kaur Ruprah, 24, and Kiranjeet Sagoo, 36, were all killed in a subsequent crash after emergency services failed to clear the first incident in sufficient time.

Walthamstow Coroner’s Court heard that the Ford Transit van remained parked in the central reservation and slightly obstructing the outside lane.

The inquest found that the call handler had incorrectly logged the only possible location of the crash as Dagenham junction.

Police therefore found no sign of the incident when they arrived at the given location four miles away, even after checking adjacent junctions.

The call handler’s mistake was spotted later in the day, but the supervisory team did not them any feedback or training.

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