{"id":750943,"date":"2026-08-27T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750943\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:26:10","slug":"woman-remains-critical-after-fatal-pursuit-collision-in-stratford-upon-avon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750943\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman remains critical after fatal pursuit collision in Stratford-upon-Avon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman remains in a critical condition after a police pursuit in Stratford-upon-Avon which saw one man die and two women injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old driver of a black Audi failed to stop for officers on Birmingham Road shortly before 17:30 BST on Monday, Warwickshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was pursued by officers for about six minutes before colliding with a white Ford Puma on the on the A439 Warwick Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver of the Ford, a woman aged in her 60s, was taken to hospital in a critical condition where she remains. A second woman, a passenger in the Puma, was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another driver went to hospital for further assessment, but his injuries were not believed to be serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two other cars were thought to be damaged because of the collision, with several others reporting damage from the pursuit, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As is mandatory with a death following police contact, we referred ourselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC),&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The IOPC has declared an independent investigation, and we will continue to fully co-operate with their investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman remains in a critical condition after a police pursuit in Stratford-upon-Avon which saw one man die&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}