Elderly woman dies after being hit by HGV lorry (From Enfield Independent)

Elderly woman dies after being hit by HGV lorry

1:15pm Friday 26th October 2007

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AN ELDERLY woman has been killed in a road accident after she fell beneath the wheels of an articulated lorry in Bullsmoor Lane.

The incident happened shortly after 2.30pm on Thursday at a set of traffic lights close to the junction of Hertford Road and Great Cambridge Road, in the north of the borough.

Police, fire and ambulance crews attended the scene, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident brought surrounding roads to a standstill, and traffic was diverted towards Waltham Cross.

A police statement read: "We are appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision.

"Police were called at 2.38pm on Thursday to reports of a HGV vehicle in collision with a pedestrian on Bullsmoor Lane at the junction with Hertford Road.

"Police, ambulance and fire brigade attended and found an elderly female pedestrian trapped. The woman died as a result of her injury.

"The Collision Investigation Unit is investigating the circumstances of the collision."

Anyone with information should call the investigation unit on 020 8597 4874.

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