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LONDON-CAR CRASH-DEATH
2 people killed in car crash in east London
LONDON, Dec. 31,2018 (BSS/Xinhua) — A woman in her 70s and a taxi driver were killed early Monday in a horrific crash after the woman was seen driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway in east London.
London police rushed to the A13 in Dagenham, east London, at 01:45 GMT on Monday, but were too late to stop the car before the crash.
The taxi driver is thought to be in his 40s.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed the accident, saying that shortly after the car travelling the wrong way down the carriageway, “the vehicle was involved in a collision with a taxi heading in the opposite direction. Next of kin have not been informed.”
The road is currently closed as investigations and a clear up is carried out.
A similar crash in October saw three people die, after driver John Norton, 80, and his partner Olive Howard, 87, took a wrong turn down the M40 northbound carriageway.
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