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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

Number of hit-and-run collisions in London hit record high with offence 'almost normalised'

The number of hit-and-run collisions in London has hit a record high as campaigners warn that drivers not stopping after a crash has become “almost normalised”.

There were 7,708 incidents recorded in 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, up 14 per cent on the 7,079 recorded the previous year.

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