Hit and run on child cyclist in Deptford Church St this afternoon.

[deptfordmarmoset]

This finally appeared this morning on the newsshopper website. Some of the details are different, i.e. not a stolen car, just an Audi, (the perils of 2nd hand accounts...) so I've copied the article in full. I also posted on the crosswhatfields? blog where the comments tell us something about TJ:
17-year-old cyclist killed in Deptford hit and run

7:00am Sunday 25th March 2012 in News By Crime Reporter
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a hit and run accident in Deptford which killed a 17-year-old cyclist.
Officers were called at around 5pm on Friday to Deptford Church Street, at the junction with Bronze Street.
A 17-year-old boy, named locally as TJ, had been knocked off of his bicycle by a silver Audi car as he was using the pedestrian crossing.
The car failed to stop and the driver continued south along Deptford Church Street, then turned around at the traffic lights before coming back to the scene.
Eventually, the driver stopped on the opposite carriageway before driving off again, turning left into Coffey Street.
The car, which had not been reported as stolen, was found abandoned in Watergate Street, Deptford, at around 7pm.
The cyclist was taken by London's Air Ambulance to King Collage Hospital with severe injuries and died there at 8.20pm.
Next of kin are aware but formal identification has yet to take place.
Inquiries are underway to trace the driver of the vehicle involved.
Anyone with information can contact the Road Death Investigation Unit at Catford Traffic Garage on 0208 285 1574 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

 

[downfader]

This finally appeared this morning on the newsshopper website. Some of the details are different, i.e. not a stolen car, just an Audi, (the perils of 2nd hand accounts...) so I've copied the article in full. I also posted on the crosswhatfields? blog where the comments tell us something about TJ:
17-year-old cyclist killed in Deptford hit and run

7:00am Sunday 25th March 2012 in News By Crime Reporter
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a hit and run accident in Deptford which killed a 17-year-old cyclist.
Officers were called at around 5pm on Friday to Deptford Church Street, at the junction with Bronze Street.
A 17-year-old boy, named locally as TJ, had been knocked off of his bicycle by a silver Audi car as he was using the pedestrian crossing.
The car failed to stop and the driver continued south along Deptford Church Street, then turned around at the traffic lights before coming back to the scene.
Eventually, the driver stopped on the opposite carriageway before driving off again, turning left into Coffey Street.
The car, which had not been reported as stolen, was found abandoned in Watergate Street, Deptford, at around 7pm.
The cyclist was taken by London's Air Ambulance to King Collage Hospital with severe injuries and died there at 8.20pm.
Next of kin are aware but formal identification has yet to take place.
Inquiries are underway to trace the driver of the vehicle involved.
Anyone with information can contact the Road Death Investigation Unit at Catford Traffic Garage on 0208 285 1574 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

I think I put a link to this thread on twitter the otherday, and now I've just seen this posted on twitter:
http://lcc.org.uk/articles/police-search-for-hit-and-run-killer-of-17-year-old-cyclist-in-deptford

RIP to the lad involved.

 

[A London Cyclist]

Very sad. No doubt with the car, the Police will soon have the killer - a "person" that not only killed TJ, but drove back to check out his work, and then drove off - What a awful excuse for a human being.

 

[A London Cyclist]

A London Cyclist, from what I've heard witnesses got the registration number. As the driver doubled back and went up Coffey Street, his most likely escape route after the high street would have been either up Edward Street or along Evelyn Street. You would have been on Evelyn Street travelling in the other direction so it's possible they passed you in the opposite direction. It might be a long shot but it's worth asking the police if your headcam video images might help them narrow down the ''what happened next'' bit. PM me if you'd rather I phoned around first to see whether the police (probably that traffic accident unit in Catford) are interested.

I have checked out the camera and cannot see any Audi's on the video. I left work around 5pm, so probably missed the "getaway" - have saved the footage if needed.

 

[jefmcg]

It's on 4 sites (at least) now https://news.google.co.uk/news/stor...&q=deptford&ncl=dyK7Ro00eqlj-SMIaanXI-PbCNlVM

Bail. If it was a stabbing, would they have let him out so soon?

(btw, those police witness signs take week's to go up. but it sounds like they probably have plenty of witnesses)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just spoke to TJ's uncle - his most immediate family in the country - and the hardest part after speaking to the mother was that it wouldn't go to court until after what would have been TJ's 18th birthday. He also said that the driver had turned himself in at Lewisham Police station yesterday afternoon after the police had come round knocking on the family door.

 

[her_welshness]

Thank you deptfordmarmoset for keeping us updated and for speaking to the family. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.

 

[Linford]

Just read this on the BBC news site - very sad.

RIP TJ, 17 is no age to die

 

[dawesome]

This is grim. RIP.

 

[Ecclefechan]

This really is a very sad, horrific and tragic event, and my utmost condolences are towards his family and friends at this sad time, most of my family are in the Emergency services, and unfortunately many stories like this are far too common for this day in age.

17 Years old? Not even began life yet.

 

[moralcrusader]

Awful. That the waste of air went back to check his handiwork is particularly reprehensible.

RIP

 

[Brains]

To add to this tragedy, Bronze St is where the Sue Godfrey Nature Park is situated, named after another local resided killed on her bike some 20 years ago.

 

[RedRider]

Awful news and such a blow to a local community. A terrible coincidence regarding the nature park.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

To add to this tragedy, Bronze St is where the Sue Godfrey Nature Park is situated, named after another local resided killed on her bike some 20 years ago.

I hadn't made that connection, Brains. It brings back memories because, quite by chance, I cycled the same route through Catford just a couple of hours after her death under the wheels of a left-turning lorry. It was only afterwards that I discovered who the cordoned off junction was for. I'll ask the tenants association whether the little park could be used as a place to commemorate our own fallen in a bit more tranquillity than on a dual carriageway.

Good local knowledge there, Brains. Do you know some of the old Deptford guard?

 

[Crankarm]

What's the odds on the driver getting a community service order as a sentence, if it gets that far........?