Overview
- Officers, paramedics and firefighters responded around 12.30am Friday to a collision at Forest Road and Blackhorse Road, where a car struck a pedestrian and then hit a building.
- The pedestrian, a 26-year-old man, was treated at the scene and pronounced dead at 1.04am, and next-of-kin have been informed.
- The driver, a 52-year-old man who sustained minor injuries, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and remains in police custody.
- A separate incident the previous morning at an address on Blackhorse Road left a 70-year-old woman dead, and Emma Nightingale, 36, has been charged with murder and remanded to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court.
- Police request witnesses or dashcam footage quoting CAD 149/12DEC25, and local MP Stella Creasy says she will seek an urgent Transport for London safety update for the site.