Travel advisory - grove vale closed

[Jamma]

Grove vale cordoned off by police. Traffic chaos at goose green and buses diverting via Peckham. Predictably v slow thru Peckham.

Anyone know why cops closed grove vale?

[indiej25]

Apparently there's been a hit and run my boyfriend saw the stretcher, just outside goose green school. How can people run people down and drive off. *shakes head*

[Belle]

a cyclist has been hit - my husband just called to let me know about the traffic. I think it is very recent as when he went past the ambulance hadn't arrived yet. I really hope whoever it is isn't badly hurt.

[woodycheese]

Just spoke to a policewoman at Goose Green and she advised the above incident involved a child. No other detalis available. Let's all hope the child is ok.

[dubluke]

very sad to hear there was a hit and run, hope no-one was seriously hurt, traffic appears to be moving again on Grove Vale...

[ceebeebee]

Does anyone know what actually happened? someone told me a child was killed outside the school, which is at the end of my road, and I"m really hoping that isn"t true.

[DonGee]

ceebeebee Wrote:

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> Does anyone know what actually happened? someone

> told me a child was killed outside the school,

> which is at the end of my road, and I"m really

> hoping that isn"t true.

I too heard it was a little girl and that sadly she died. Really hoping this isn't the case, my thoughts go out to her family either way because she would've sustained awful injuries if she has survived.

[annaj]

I can understand that people are concerned and want to know what happened, but when there have been accidents before all sorts of misinformation, speculation and rumour has been quoted on here as fact.

Do remember that who ever was involved will have family and friends and unsubstatiated rumours spreading about might cause them even more distress.

[Miss P]

Don't the yellow police boards appealing for info go up if it's a fatality? I may be wrong, I went along that road this evening at 5ish and there are no incident boards to be seen - I really hope it wasn't too serious. Let's wait for someone with the absolute facts to post?

[sazzle]

The yellow boards sometimes do not appear until a couple of weeks after the event.

Also hope no one was injured.

[mrure26]

I've lived in East Dulwich for 17 months now and in that time it seems to have had its more than fair share of serious road accidents and too many since I moved there, including the fatality of a 10 year old school child in January this year. Is there something that needs to be done to make the area safer - more zebra crossings, traffic lights? More prudent drivers.

[tarafitness]

It would certainly make life easier and safer if there were at least one zebra crossing on Lordship Lane along the main section, especially near/between the turning off onto/from east dulwich grove!