Incident on Laud Street: Emergency services closed off a section of the High Street yesterday evening during an emergency rescue operation which included an air ambulance landing on the roof of a nearby multi-storey car park (top left of picture)
A collision involving a large SUV and a woman pedestrian on Laud Street yesterday evening saw a section of the High Street, just south of the Croydon Flyover, closed to traffic for almost two hours while rescue services did their work.
The air ambulance was called in, landing on the roof of a nearby multi-storey car park alongside the Flyover.
Laud Street is a narrow, one-way side street which leads off the High Street, down past the Bull’s Head public house to Wandle Road and towards South Croydon.
According to official reports from the emergency services and eye-witness accounts, the collision involving the vehicle and a pedestrian happened just after 5.30pm. A man and a woman, in their 30s according to the Metropolitan Police, “suffered non-life threatening injuries” and were taken to hospital.
Emergency services: firefighters worked to release the people trapped by the collision on Laud Street
Pictures taken at the scene suggest that firefighters were needed to lift the vehicle up, possibly to release a trapped individual.
The London Fire Brigade issued this statement to Inside Croydon: “A car collided with a member of the public. Two people were taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews.
“The Brigade was called at [5.47pm] and the incident was over for firefighters by [6.40pm]. Two fire engines and a fire rescue unit from Woodside, Norbury and Croydon fire stations attended the scene.”
The Metropolitan Police asks that anyone with information on this incident to contact them on 101 or on ‘X’ @MetCC, quoting CAD 5679/09SEP.
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