Nine people have been injured after a car being pursued by police crashed in east London.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan police said officers had tried to stop a vehicle they believed had been stolen.<\/p>\n
The car failed to stop and a short pursuit followed before it collided with another vehicle in Ilford.<\/p>\n
Ten people, including those in both cars and a motor scooter rider, were treated at the scene. Nine were taken to hospital, according to the London ambulance service (LAS).<\/p>\n
LAS said it was called at 12.30am to reports of a crash at the junction of Barley Lane and High Road.<\/p>\n
Of those being treated, the Met said five people aged between 14 and 46 had sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The force said the driver of the vehicle, a woman in her 20s, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, theft and failing to stop. She remains in hospital.<\/p>\n
The four passengers of the stolen vehicle \u2013 a woman in her 40s, a teenage girl and two men in their 20s \u2013 were also arrested on suspicion of being in a stolen vehicle. They also remain in hospital.<\/p>\n
The Met appealed for information and said the junction would remain closed in all directions while inquiries continued.<\/p>\n
An LAS spokesperson said it deployed an air ambulance, among other resources including a hazardous areas response team, although it did not explain why those specialists were required.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe treated 10 patients at the scene and took nine to hospital. One person declined further aid,\u201d LAS said in a statement to Sky News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine people have been injured after a car being pursued by police crashed in east London. The Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-588019","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\/588019","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=588019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}