{"id":501607,"date":"2026-03-29T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:26:08","slug":"derby-seven-injured-and-man-in-custody-after-pedestrians-struck-by-car-in-derby-city-centre-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501607\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby: Seven injured and man in custody after pedestrians struck by car in Derby city centre- follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven injured, driver in custody &#8211; the latest police statement in fullpublished at 08:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:40 BSTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ve just received an updated statement from Derbyshire Constabulary:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We can confirm that seven people were injured when a car was driven into pedestrians in a city centre street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The car, a black Suzuki Swift, struck a number of people in Friar Gate at about 9.30pm on Saturday 28 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven people were treated at the scene by ambulance crews and taken to Royal Derby Hospital and Queen\u2019s Medical Centre in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seven suffered a range of serious but not life-threatening injuries and we can confirm that contrary to online speculation, no one died in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man in his 30s, who is originally from India, was found a short time after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, causing serious injury through dangerous driving, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He remains in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident are ongoing and we are keeping an open mind as to the motives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven injured, driver in custody &#8211; the latest police statement in fullpublished at 08:40 BST 08:40 BSTBreaking We&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501607","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=501607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}