{"id":187452,"date":"2025-06-15T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187452\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:42:11","slug":"arrest-after-car-hits-people-outside-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187452\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after car hits people outside pub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merseyside Police has confirmed a 61-year-old man has been taken to hospital with his injuries<\/p>\n

22:45, 15 Jun 2025Updated 22:47, 15 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

\"AA man has been arrested after a Ford Focus collided with a number of people following an incident outside a pub<\/p>\n

A man has been arrested after a Ford Focus collided with a number of people following an incident outside a pub. Merseyside Police<\/a> has confirmed officers were called to a disturbance outside the Queens Arms pub on Black Brow in Huyton<\/a> at around 6.20pm today, Sunday, June 15.<\/p>\n

Following enquiries it was identified that a white Ford Focus had been involved in a collision with a number of pedestrians<\/a>, causing a serious ankle injury to a 61-year-old man. He has been taken to hospital for treatment.It was reported that the Ford Focus had made off from the scene, and after conducting enquiries officers located the vehicle.<\/p>\n

A 30-year-old man from Huyton<\/a> has since been arrested on suspicion of section 18 wounding, drink driving, dangerous driving, making off from the scene of a crash and attempted section 18 assault<\/a>. He remains in custody awaiting questioning.<\/p>\n

The ECHO<\/a> has attempted to contact the Queens Arms for comment on Instagram and via phone.<\/p>\n

Merseyside Police<\/a> has confirmed the force is appealing for any witnesses, CCTV and dash camera footage which could assist the investigation.<\/p>\n

Detective chief inspector Louise Hooley said: “We are in the early stages of the investigation as we seek to establish the full circumstances which led to the collision.<\/p>\n

“I would appeal to anyone who has information or witnessed the collision to please contact us. “In addition I ask people in the area to please check your CCTV and dashcam footage to see if it may have captured a white Ford Focus to help with the investigation.”<\/p>\n

We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.<\/p>\n

For the latest news and breaking news visit http:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information should contact Merseyside Police social media desk via X @MerPolCC or on Facebook \u2018Merseyside Police Contact Centre\u2019. You can also report information via the police website: https:\/\/www.merseyside.police.uk\/ro\/report\/ocr\/af\/how-to-report-a-crime\/<\/a> or call 101 quoting incident log 755 of 15 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merseyside Police has confirmed a 61-year-old man has been taken to hospital with his injuries 22:45, 15 Jun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,16552,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-huyton","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689798772419160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187452","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=187452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}