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Driver Charged With Causing Death by Dangerous Driving in KCL Strand Crash

The 27-year-old from Southampton is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court on January 5.

Overview

  • Christopher Jackson has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving after the March 18 collision outside King’s College London.
  • Police say the crash involved a van and pedestrians near the Strand campus, where 20-year-old student Aalia Mahomed died at the scene.
  • Two other pedestrians, a man and a woman in their 20s, were seriously hurt, taken to hospital and later discharged.
  • Jackson was charged on December 1, according to reports referencing police and court records.
  • A memorial at KCL honored Mahomed with a plaque beneath a cherry blossom, her mother accepted a posthumous honorary degree, and her family launched the Be More Aalia campaign to build a school in Malawi.