Overview

• The collision occurred at about 1:35 am when a car veered off St Stephen’s Road and struck the pub’s outdoor area at the Roman Road junction
• Paramedics from the London Ambulance Service declared one passenger dead at the scene and took two others to hospital with non life-threatening injuries
• Emergency teams deployed multiple units including HART and London’s Air Ambulance to treat casualties amid challenging conditions
• Metropolitan Police arrested the male driver and another passenger, both in their twenties, on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving
• Specialist officers continue forensic examinations under a maintained cordon, reigniting concerns over pedestrian safety in busy east London quarters