{"id":501175,"date":"2026-03-29T03:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:42:08","slug":"man-arrested-in-derby-after-car-hits-multiple-pedestrians-with-some-seriously-injured-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501175\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Derby after car hits multiple pedestrians, with some seriously injured | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A man has been arrested after a car hit and injured pedestrians in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/derby\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derby<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Derbyshire police said a number of people had been injured, some of them seriously, in the incident in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police said the car believed to be involved was stopped after the incident in Friar Gate at about 9.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The driver, a man in his 30s, was arrested and is in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police have asked anyone who saw a black Suzuki Swift in Derby around the time of the incident to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The force\u2019s statement said: \u201cAlthough we know this will be alarming, we would like to reassure people that we do not believe there is an ongoing risk to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A section of Friar Gate is expected to be closed for some time and people are asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a car hit and injured pedestrians in Derby on Saturday. Derbyshire police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-501175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}