{"id":506278,"date":"2026-04-01T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:55:08","slug":"man-charged-after-seven-people-hit-by-car-in-derby-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506278\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after seven people hit by car in Derby city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a statement, Ch Supt Emma Aldred called the charge “positive news”, but reiterated that the investigation was ongoing and called on the public to come forward with any information.<\/p>\n

“This incident has, naturally, sent shockwaves through the community of Derby and the county as a whole,” she said.<\/p>\n

Aldred added: “My thoughts, and those of the wider force, remain with each of the seven injured people, their families, and witnesses at the scene.”<\/p>\n

She also urged the public to “allow the judicial process to continue without any speculation” that could impede the “pursuit of justice for all those affected”.<\/p>\n

Janine McKinney, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said prosecutors had worked with Derbyshire Police and had established “sufficient evidence” to bring the case to court.<\/p>\n

She added it was “in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings”.<\/p>\n

The victims of the incident – four men and three women aged between 36 and 52 – all suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries during the incident. <\/p>\n

Three people have since been discharged<\/a> from hospital.<\/p>\n

Claire Ward, mayor of the East Midlands, had called for local communities and agencies to do “all we can” to support people affected.<\/p>\n

“This is a serious but isolated incident. I know that for those not just involved who were injured on the evening, but who were around the city centre and had first-hand experience of what happened, this will be a really frightening time,” she told the BBC on Monday.<\/p>\n

The suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the incident and had been held for questioning prior to the charges announced on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Police previously said the incident was not being treated as terrorism and there was no ongoing risk to the public.<\/p>\n

Counter-terrorism police had joined the investigation after the incident, but the Derbyshire force said this was “common practice”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, Ch Supt Emma Aldred called the charge “positive news”, but reiterated that the investigation was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506279,"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-506278","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\/506278","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=506278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}