Tamil Mother accidently killed in police car chase in London

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Tamil Mother accidently killed in police car chase in London

A mother of two died after her car was in a head-on crash with a vehicle being chased by police, Scotland Yard said today.

Pushparani Jayamohan, 34, from Greenford, west London, was involved in the collision with a Saab 900 on the northbound carriageway of the A312, near Hayes, west London, on Saturday afternoon.
The Saab 900 was pursued by police after it was seen being driven erratically on Uxbridge Road, Southall.

‘Police officers attached to Southall had been pursuing the vehicle prior to the collision, but were not present at the time of the collision,’ said a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said.

The vehicle was followed by an unmarked police car after it refused to pull over at traffic lights in Southall. A marked police car took over the pursuit, at the request of the first car.

The spokeswoman revealed that the Saab travelled the wrong way around the Ossie Garvin roundabout, performed a U-turn on a slip road and went the wrong way down the northbound carriageway of the A312.

‘The officers stopped following the car and went around the correct way,’ the spokeswoman said.

She confirmed that the police officers in the car had intended to catch up with the Saab on the northbound carriageway, but on arrival discovered that it had been in collision with Mrs Jayamohan’s Fiat Punto.

Mrs Jayamohan was taken to Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, but was pronounced dead shortly after her arrival.

The 30-year-old man who was driving the Saab was being held in custody at Southall Police Station in connection with causing death by dangerous driving, theft of a motor vehicle, and possession of a substance believed to be drugs, the spokeswoman said.

Home Office figures published in December revealed a 300 per cent rise in the number of deaths following police chases between April 1999 and March 2000 compared to the previous 12 months.

In the same month, the Metropolitan Police launched the first national guide for training police drivers to help reduce the number of crashes involving its vehicles.

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