Five people injured after car ploughs into pedestrians following 'altercation'

Five people have been injured after a car ploughed into a group of pedestrians in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The incident, which police are not treating as a terrorist incident or hate crime, happened in Stockwell, south-west London, just before 3am on Saturday morning.

The Metropolitan Police said five men aged 23 to 42 were injured when the Volkswagen Golf hit a number of pedestrians on Stockwell Road near the junction of Sidney Road. None are in a critical condition.

Officers believe the collision happened shortly after an “altercation” between the occupants of the car and a number of pedestrians.

The vehicle was abandoned at the scene and a number of occupants made off on foot, the Met said.

Inquiries continue, and no arrests have been made.

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Kevin Bate, deputy director of Operations at London Ambulance Service, said six ambulance crews, two advance paramedics, two incident response officers, a hazardous area response team and air ambulance medics attended.

He said: “We treated five patients on the scene for a range of head and leg injuries. We took one patient as a priority to a major trauma centre and took four patients as a priority to a trauma centre.”