A13 crash: Motorcyclist suffers head injuries after Barking hit and run crash

Closed: Queues for four miles after the A13 eastbound crash.
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Francesca Gillett19 August 2016

A motorcyclist has been flown to hospital with head injuries after a hit and run crash with a car in east London this morning.

The air ambulance was scrambled after a crash on the A13 eastbound in Barking, closing part of the road.

Paramedics took the man, who was in his 50s, by air ambulance to a central London hospital as a priority following the accident at around 3.45am.

But the car which was involved in the crash failed to stop and enquiries are now underway to trace it, police said.

Officers arrived at the crash scene this morning to investigate but a spokesman said no arrests have yet been made.

The road at Movers Lane, Barking, was closed for most of this morning and police warned drivers to avoid the area.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car and an incident response officer to the scene alongside London’s Air Ambulance.

“We treated a man at the scene for a head injury and took him as a priority to a hospital in central London.”

The Met Police said his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.

Traffic was queuing for four miles until the road reopened at around 10am – six hours after the crash.

Transport for London said traffic is still moving slowly.

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