A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder as five people were taken to hospital, the Met Police revealed. Officers however say they are not treating the incident as terrorism.<\/p>\n
A spokesman said: “Police were called to Ealing Broadway, Ealing at 14:29hrs on Saturday, 27 June to a report of a car colliding with multiple pedestrians.<\/p>\n
\u201cA total of five pedestrians were injured. Two were treated at the scene and three were taken to hospital. At this time, it is believed they have all suffered non-life-threatening or life-changing injuries.\u201cThe car involved did not stop at the scene but was stopped in nearby Grange Park a short time later. The driver, a 34-year-old Somalia-born British man, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the nature of the incident, local officers were in contact with officers from Counter Terrorism Policing London as they conducted their initial enquiries. While investigators are keeping an open mind as to any potential motive, the incident is not being treated as terrorism.\u201cRoad closures are in place in the area and could remain in place for some time while the police investigation progresses.\u201cAnyone with information or relevant footage is asked to contact the police on 101, providing the reference 4607\/27JUN.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder as five people were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1054344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,51794,289649,393,4884,257,136,135,760,16,15],"class_list":["post-1054343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-ealing","tag-ealing-broadway","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-london-ambulance-service","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116824478079833053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}