{"id":21625,"date":"2026-04-25T01:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/21625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:19:50","slug":"waymo-driverless-taxi-ploughs-into-london-crime-scene-after-double-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/21625\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo ‘driverless’ taxi ploughs into London crime scene after double stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Waymo \u201cdriverless\u201d taxi<\/a> drove into a crime scene in west London as it was being tested on the streets of the capital.<\/p>\n

Dramatic video posted on TikTok shows the moment the vehicle careers into a police<\/a> cordon in Harlesden<\/a> as officers investigate a double stabbing.<\/p>\n

The white car \u2013 which is designed to be full autonomous \u2013 can be seen crashing into the crime scene, seemingly oblivious of a police vehicle\u2019s flashing lights and siren and \u2018Do Not Cross\u2019 tape stretched across the road.<\/p>\n

After the car brakes sharply to a stop, two police officers are seen engaging in conversation with a person sitting in the car before it reverses away.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Waymo told the Daily Mail the car was being manually driven at the time \u2013 and that the driver involved had been suspended.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cinitial analysis suggests\u201d the car would have identified the danger and stopped had it been in automated mode.<\/p>\n

The firm added: \u201cWe sincerely apologise for any disruption caused by this validation driver, who was operating the vehicle in manual mode. We take this matter seriously and are working with our operations partner to ensure appropriate actions are taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Standard has contacted Waymo for comment.<\/p>\n

The incident happened on Wednesday evening as Met police detectives investigated a double stabbing in the centre of the west London neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Two men, both aged in their 20s, were attacked on Harlesden High Street at around 6.25pm.<\/p>\n

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A Waymo self-driving electric car sighted in London on March 11, 2026 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Paramedics and London’s Air Ambulance treated the two victims at the scene before rushing them to hospital. Police have yet to comment on the extent and severity of their injuries.<\/p>\n

In February, one of the company\u2019s driverless vehicles ended up in a crime scene in the US city of Atlanta after two officers were injured in a shooting.<\/p>\n

Two months earlier, video emerged showing a Waymo robotaxi driving a passenger through the scene of a police standoff in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The taxi came across a street blocked by police vehicles before turning into an area that was not blocked off where other vehicles were also traveling, according to a Waymo spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Waymo has previously spoken of its hopes that its driverless cars could be up and running in London by September this year. <\/a><\/p>\n

The US firm is understood to have as many as 24 care driving around the capital with drivers in tow as they map the city ahead of a driverless release, subject to regulatory approvals.<\/p>\n

Safety drivers are in place to ensure the vehicles are effective before a broader roll-out is planned for later this year.<\/p>\n

If the rollout goes as planned, this will mark the first time the firm\u2019s robotaxis will hit roads outside the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Waymo \u201cdriverless\u201d taxi drove into a crime scene in west London as it was being tested on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9919,9921,9923,244,27,9922,9920,6598,3283],"class_list":{"0":"post-21625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-crime-scene","9":"tag-double-stabbing","10":"tag-driverless-cars","11":"tag-harlesden","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-police-vehicle","14":"tag-police-vehicles","15":"tag-waymo","16":"tag-west-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116462722941282977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}