A 23-year-old woman has died after being found with a head injury on a road in South West London in the early hours of the morning.
Metropolitan Police officers were called to Silverthorne Road in Battersea at about 2.30am yesterday to reports of an injured woman.
She was found with a head injury and later died in hospital, with detectives now probing the circumstances around her death.
The woman was found with an injury on Silverthorne Road in Battersea, South West London
A police spokesman said said: ‘Police have confirmed that a woman found injured in the road in south London has died.
‘Police were called at 2.31am on Thursday, August 1 to reports of an injured woman on the road at Silverthorne Road, SW8.
‘Officers and London Ambulance Service (LAS) attended. At the scene a woman, aged 23, was found with a head injury.
‘She was taken by LAS to a south London hospital where she later died. Her next of kin have been informed. Detectives are working to establish the circumstances of the incident.
Anyone with information or dash-cam footage is asked to call the Metropolitan Police on 101 or post on X @MetCC quoting CAD 710/01AUG