The police watchdog is investigating after the crash left a woman in her 20s dead and a man in a critical condition
A woman in her 20s has died in a car crash after a police pursuit by officers investigating a drone that was being flown near prison grounds.
A woman in her 20s has died in a car crash after a police pursuit by officers investigating a drone that was being flown near prison grounds.
Police were called to Groom Crescent near Wandsworth Prison in south London just after 3am on Tuesday, and began following a car that they saw driving away.
At around 3.10am the car crashed in Ashcombe Street at the junction of Wandsworth Bridge Road, and the woman passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver, a man also thought to be in his 20s, is in a critical condition in hospital. Police are in the process of telling their families.
Watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating.
A local man, who wished to remain anonymous, said the car crashed through six bollards and two fences and was ablaze when emergency services arrived.
He told the Wandsworth Guardian: "I spoke to a bus driver who was behind the car and he said they had been driving at 120mph.
"The car was on fire and police had to put it out.
"The fire brigade and the ambulance arrived after."
Authorities have grown increasingly concerned about the use of drones to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into jails.
Figures obtained earlier this year by the Press Association showed that in 2013 none of the gadgets were discovered in or around prisons in England and Wales. But in 2014 this rose to two incidents, rising to 33 in 2015.
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