A 19-year-old male driver has been arrested after a pedestrian was left fighting for his life in a crash that closed one of east London’s busiest roads for 10 hours.
Police and paramedics were called to Commercial Road, Limehouse at 21.47pm on Thursday.
A man, in his 30s, crossing the street was hit by a car.
London Ambulance Service took him to a hospital’s major trauma centre where he remains in a critical condition. A second patient had to be taken to a local hospital.
The Metropolitan Police said a teenage motorist detained at the scene on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving is still in custody.
A spokesman added: “Commercial Road was closed in both directions for recovery and investigation. It was reopened at around 8am on Friday.”
Four bus routes were on diversion and heavy congestion built up in the area causing chaos for rush-hour commuters.
A LAS spokesman said: “We were called at 9.41pm on Thursday, April 3 to reports of a road traffic collision on Commercial Road, Limehouse.
“We sent resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast response car and a clinical team manager. We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance.
“Our first paramedics arrived on scene in five minutes.
“We treated two people. We took one patient to a major trauma centre and the other patient to a local hospital.”
Witnesses or anyone with any information or footage is asked to call 101, quoting CAD 7951/03Apr.
