A woman in her 70s has been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in Clapton.
Officers and London Ambulance Service were called to Lower Clapton Road around 9am yesterday (July 1).
The pedestrian, a woman, and treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.
Her injuries have been assessed to be neither life-threatening nor changing.
The driver was not injured and the crash is not being treated as suspicious.
A cordon remained in place into the afternoon with Lower Clapton Road closed to traffic at the junction with Urswick Road.
The same day a man died after a crash nearby in Dalston on Balls Pond Road.
A Met Police spokesperson said: “Around 09:00hrs on Tuesday, 1 July, officers attended Lower Clapton Road, Homerton, alongside the London Ambulance Service, following a collision involving a car and a pedestrian.
“The pedestrian, a woman aged in her 70s, was taken to hospital, where her injuries were declared non-life-changing and non-life-threatening.
“The driver was not injured.
“The circumstances of the crash are not being treated as suspicious.”
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 8.40am today (1 July) to reports of a road traffic collision on Lower Clapton Road, Hackney.
“We sent ambulance crews to the scene and treated a patient before taking them to a major trauma centre.”
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