Croydon man arrested after elderly mother of Michael Fenton Stevens killed by her own car in terrible accident

Police arrested the man on suspicion of causing serious injury through dangerous driving.

He has been bailed to a date in mid February next year pending further enquiries.

Olive Stevens, 88, was knocked over by a man who was helping her to reverse her silver Nissan Micra along Skeet Hill Lane at around 8.30am last Thursday.

She had been driving along the lane to the hairdressers and had to stop her car due to a lorry blocking the road clearing a pile of fly-tipped rubbish.

Paramedics rushed Mrs Stevens, of Allard Close, to King’s College Hospital but she later died from a serious head injury.

Mrs Stevens was the mother of British TV star and comedian Michael Fenton Stevens.

He has more than 85 TV and film acting credits including Coronation Street, My Family and Only Fools and Horses.

He was also the voice of hit The Chicken Song from the 1980s programme Spitting Image. Mr Stevens, from Tunbridge Wells, said his family blamed irresponsible fly-tippers for her death.

The 56-year-old said: “It’s a terrible accident. The whole thing stems from the carelessness and greed of the fly-tippers.

“Clearly they do it because they are making money out of it but the consequence of them earning their 150 quid is that my mother is dead.

“Without that initial action on their behalf, my mother would still be alive. None of this would have happened.”