Overview
- A collision between two lorries on the M25 anti-clockwise near junction 27 killed 39-year-old Legton Zulu, and he was pronounced dead at the scene on Tuesday, June 16.
- Emergency services had been dealing with a separate lorry fire on the same stretch between junctions 27 and 26 about an hour before the fatal crash.
- Essex Police have opened an investigation under incident 130 and are asking anyone with witness accounts or dashcam footage to report it via the police website, Live Chat, 101 or Crimestoppers.
- Zulu was a professional HGV driver of more than 15 years and a deacon in Forward in Faith Ministries International, and his family say he leaves a wife and three young sons who are now bereaved.
- Collision investigators are carrying out forensic checks on the vehicles and the motorway suffered lane closures and barrier damage that required repairs, so police evidence and footage will be crucial to determine what happened.