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| Driver 'deliberately mows down pedestrians' outside London Museum |
| 2017-10-07 |
| [Daily Mail] Several people are injured after a car mounted the pavement outside the Natural History Museum in London, according to reports. A man has been arrested at the scene after several pedestrians were mowed down by a vehicle. He was pinned to the ground by police in front of stunned tourists shortly after 2.20pm this afternoon. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Don't know about this guy TW, but there's dozens of soft target spots around SW7. |
| Posted by: Fairbanks 2017-10-07 23:46 |
| #11 Ban vehicles- it's the obvious answer. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-10-07 23:16 |
| #10 TW - a vertical curb. 6" high, (150 mm) is supposed to be sufficient barrier for vehicles under 45 mph (more or less). |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-10-07 22:55 |
| #9 $, TW |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-10-07 17:24 |
| #8 The first photo of the series at the Daily Mail article shows the police pinning down a man in a blue shirt. Because of the angle his facial features are hard to make out, but it looks like he has brown skin, not black; short, straight black hair; and a broad nose. If he was, indeed, laughing, it could be hysteria as easily as delight or triumph. The article was just updated ten minutes ago. Scotland Yard arrested the man, but are treating it as a driving accident rather than terror. I suppose identifying the gentleman in question is easy when he is driving a registered mini-cab, whatever those are. I really do not understand why the road completely lacked anything to keep pedestrians and cars apart, when they'd just gone to such efforts to put up bollards on the road leading up to Buckingham Palace and other places. Perhaps it was on the list, but fell by the wayside as the Tories have been floundering. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-07 14:26 |
| #7 Vehicles becoming a weapon of choice. Two soldiers dead and six others injured after military vehicle crashes into troop formation at Fort Jackson military base |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-07 12:03 |
| #6 Witness: "He was pinned down on the ground and being handcuffed. He looked really proud of himself. He was laughing" "Unfortunately, we'll probably never know his motivation" in 5..4...3.. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-10-07 11:35 |
| #5 Although it may just be about the Football Lads Alliance march against terrorism looks like upto 70,000 turned up. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-07 11:29 |
| #4 The Western side of @NHM_London looking down towards Exhibition Rd, where a car hit pedestrians at 2.20pm, a number injured Something is going on. Police were expecting something today. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-07 11:27 |
| #3 Meanwhile, we are banning bump stocks. Idiots. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-10-07 11:03 |
| #2 Nigel, is that you?? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-07 10:51 |
| #1 #NaturalHistoryMuseum https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/916671599281082369 |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-07 10:47 |