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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Henry Vaughan

Drunk driver jailed after hitting rickshaw and killing woman out for birthday in Elephant and Castle crash

A drunk driver has been jailed for more than nine years after crashing into a rickshaw and killing a passenger who was in London to celebrate her birthday.

Luis Balcazar Soto, 24, did not have a licence and was twice over the drink-drive limit when the silver Kia he was driving smashed into the pedicab, throwing Sophie Strickland, 31, from the vehicle.

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