Woman killed after man drives wrong way on A13 – Essex Police, November 2022

On 25 November 2022, Essex Police identified a van that did not have rear lights illuminated. A subsequent check on the van’s registration plate revealed that the van was being driven on cloned registration plates. The police car activated its blue lights and sirens to stop the van, but the driver failed to stop. This lead to the officers reporting this to the force control room. The van drove through red traffic lights and travelled the wrong way onto a roundabout before driving up a slip road and onto the A13 dual carriageway against the flow of traffic. The police officers abandoned the pursuit and turned off their blue lights and siren. An unmarked Essex Police car, without its blue lights and siren activated, started to ‘shadow’ the van, from the correct side of the road. As the van travelled into the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) area, it collided head …