{"id":507058,"date":"2026-04-01T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:25:09","slug":"derby-car-incident-man-36-appears-in-court-after-pedestrians-hit-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507058\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby car incident: Man, 36, appears in court after pedestrians hit by car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire Police said four men and three women, aged between 36 and 52, suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four have since been released from hospital, the force added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ponnachan &#8211; of Chariot Close in Alvaston, Derby &#8211; who was wearing glasses and dressed in a plain grey T-shirt, grey jogging bottoms and light blue footwear, spoke only to confirm his personal details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">District Judge Jonathan Taaffe began the hearing by addressing Ponnachan directly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taaffe said: &#8220;You face a number of charges from an incident on March 28th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s said that upon that date, you drove dangerously and that you committed acts that have unlawfully and maliciously caused grievous bodily harm to a number of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Given the nature of the charges, they can only be dealt with at the crown court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was no application for bail during the hearing, which lasted for about five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derbyshire Police said four men and three women, aged between 36 and 52, suffered serious but non life-threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507059,"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-507058","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\/507058","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=507058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}