A 23-year-old woman has died after being found with a head injury on a road in South West London in the early hours of the morning.
Metropolitan Police officers were called to Silverthorne Road in Battersea at about 2.30am yesterday to reports of an injured woman.
She was found with a head injury and later died in hospital, with detectives now probing the mysterious circumstances around her death.
The woman was found with an injury on Silverthorne Road in Battersea, South West London
A police spokesman said today: ‘Police have confirmed that a woman found injured in the road in South London has died.
‘Police were called at 2.31am on Thursday, August 1, to reports of an injured woman on the road at Silverthorne Road, SW8.
‘Officers and London Ambulance Service (LAS) attended. At the scene a woman, aged 23, was found with a head injury. She was taken by LAS to a South London hospital where she later died.
‘Her next of kin have been informed. Detectives are working to establish the circumstances of the incident.’
Silverthorne Road has a mixture of residential and industrial buildings and is located near Queenstown Road and Wandsworth Road railway stations.Â
Properties on the road had an overall average price of £495,000 over the last year, according to Rightmove. This about a third below the SW8 average of £720,000.
Silverthorne Road is also the location where cement lorry driver Stephen Hempenstall (left) ran over and killed design student Giovanna Cappiello (right) on her bicycle on July 4, 2019
Silverthorne Road is also where a cement lorry driver ran over and killed a design student on her bicycle after missing opportunities to see her in his mirrors.
Interior design student Giovanna Cappiello, 29, was killed by Stephen Hempenstall’s 32-tonne truck as she cycled along Silverthorne Road on July 4, 2019.
Inner London Crown Court heard in February that the Mercedes Arco lorry was fitted with a range of safety measures, but Hempenstall failed to look properly or check his visual aids before he turned left across her path and ran over Ms Cappiello.
He denied causing death by careless driving but was convicted after a trial.
Anyone with information or dash-cam footage is asked to call the Metropolitan Police on 101 or post on X @MetCC quoting CAD 710/01AUG