Driver charged over 4am pedicab fatality

Police investigating a fatal collision in Southwark, involving a pedicab, have charged a man.

Luis Fernanado Balcazar-Soto, 24, of Law Street, Borough, was charged today with five counts.

They are: Causing death by dangerous driving; Causing serious injury by dangerous driving; Causing death by driving a vehicle whilst unlicensed; Causing death by driving a vehicle whilst uninsured and breach of a restraining order.

He was kept in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

The charges follow a call to police shortly after 4am yesterday to reports of a car in collision with a pedicab in New Kent Road near the junction with Harper Road.

Officers attended, along with the London Ambulance Service.

Despite the efforts of emergency services, a woman, aged in her 30s, believed to have been a passenger in the pedicab, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her family have been informed.

The pedicab driver – a man, aged in his 30s – was taken to hospital suffering a suspected broken arm, he currently remains in hospital.

A woman in her 20s who had been a passenger in the pedicab had left immediately prior to the collision and was not injured.

Anyone who witnessed the collision and is yet to speak with police is asked to call 101, ref 1420/10jul

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