A teenager was killed and another seriously injured in a car crash in Dagenham yesterday.
Police are now trying to find the man who was driving the black Audi A3 before it crashed into a lamppost and a building.
Officers were called to St Mark’s Place near Pondfield Park shortly before 2.10pm following reports of a traffic collision.
An 18-year-old man was pronounced dead in hospital. He has been named as Charlie Gunner on web forum Streetlife.com. A 16-year-old is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.
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