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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

London road crime: specialist Met police unit only investigates one in 10 serious injury crashes

The scene of a fatal collision in February that involved a bus, a car and pedestrians in Harrow - (UKNIP)

New concerns have been raised about road crime in London after the Metropolitan police said that only one in 10 serious injury collisions were investigated by specialist officers.

A London Assembly investigation was told that the Met’s serious collision investigation unit worked on about 100 cases a year – out of about 1,000 that resulted in life-changing or life-threatening injuries.

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