Person dies as car ‘ploughs into crowd outside pub' in horror early hours crash
The Metropolitan Police were called to the Albert Bow, in Bow, east London, at 1.35am today.
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Officers and London Ambulance Service crews found three people injured outside the venue, on St Stephen's Road.
Paramedics sadly pronounced one person dead at the scene.
Two others were taken to hospital, but their conditions are unknown.
A spokesperson for London Ambulance Service said: 'We were called at 1:35am today (20 July) to reports of a road traffic collision on St Stephen's Road, Bow.
'We sent resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, an advanced paramedic, an incident response officer, members of our hazardous area response team (HART) and London's Air Ambulance.
'Our crews treated three people.
"Sadly, one person was declared dead at the scene. We took the other two patients to hospital.'
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