Police detain man after several pedestrians injured by car near London’s Natural History Museum

SEVERAL people have been injured after a car reportedly ploughed into people outside London’s Natural History Museum.

Scotland Yard said that “a number of pedestrians have been injured” in an incident in Exhibition Road in South Kensington shortly after 2.20pm.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Officers are on scene, and the London Ambulance Service have been called.

“A man has been arrested at the scene.

“Enquiries to establish the circumstances and motive are underway.

“If you have any information about this incident, please call 101.”

Pictures and footage from the scene showed street damage and a massive police presence in the capital’s museum district, home to the NHM, the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The area is a magnet for tourists, including lots of children.

There’s been a serious incident outside the Museum. We are working w/ @metpoliceuk and will provide an update when we have more information

— Natural History Museum (@NHM_London) October 7, 2017

Afra Wang posted a picture of emergency services on Twitter, writing: “A crime scene? Full armed police locked the whole area out outside of V and A in London. The helicopter above us doesn’t seem to leave.”

Video footage on Twitter showed a man being restrained on the ground in the middle of Exhibition Road.

Police with machine guns outside London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. #london pic.twitter.com/UGfo5eVjc6

— Afra Wang (@afrazhaowang) October 7, 2017

None of the four people around him are in uniform.

Behind them is a black Toyota car with its driver’s door open, which appears to have collided with a silver Vauxhall saloon.

Car ploughs into crowd outside Natural History Museum – picture from the site. #London #incident #news pic.twitter.com/yoFSKA9p75

— Afra Wang (@afrazhaowang) October 7, 2017