{"id":501762,"date":"2026-03-29T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:40:07","slug":"uk-police-arrest-suspect-after-car-hits-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501762\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police arrest suspect after car hits pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-kingdom\/t-60783992\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British<\/a> police said on Sunday seven people had suffered &#8220;serious but not life-threatening injuries&#8221; the previous day in the central <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/england\/t-19249879\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a> city of Derby when a car drove into pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>According to Derbyshire Police, the car, a black Suzuki Swift, struck several people in Friar Gate around 9:30 p.m. local time (2130 GMT) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The seven wounded people were treated by ambulance crews at the scene and taken to Royal Derby Hospital and Queen&#8217;s Medical Center in nearby Nottingham, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"76583467\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76583467_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"The road inside a cordon set up on Friar Gate in central Derby, England, UK\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Police said they are conducting an investigation into the incidentImage: Jacob King\/PA Wire\/dpa\/picture alliance<\/p>\n<p>What do we know about the suspect?<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the incident, a man in his 30s, originally from India, was found and arrested &#8220;on suspicion of attempted murder, causing serious injury through dangerous driving, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and dangerous driving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the investigation into the circumstances of the incident is ongoing, and that they are exploring all possible motives. The suspect\u00a0remains in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Atkinson, the Member of Parliament for Derby North, said she was &#8220;deeply shocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My thoughts are with those injured and I&#8217;m grateful to our emergency services,&#8221; she said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Natalie Muller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British police said on Sunday seven people had suffered &#8220;serious but not life-threatening injuries&#8221; the previous day in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501763,"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-501762","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\/501762","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=501762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}