{"id":732585,"date":"2026-08-09T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:26:10","slug":"attempted-murder-arrest-after-pedestrians-hit-by-car-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732585\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted murder arrest after pedestrians hit by car in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous driving after three pedestrians were hit by a car following reports of a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident happened on Stokes Croft in Bristol at about 06:30 BST, according to Avon and Somerset Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the force said one of the pedestrians was taken to hospital, but their injuries were not considered to be life-changing or life-threatening. The two others were not seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man police believe to be the car&#8217;s driver was treated for facial injuries after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Street, Hepburn Road, Stokes Croft and City Road are all closed while police make enquiries, with more officers than usual in the area as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Best Off Licence in Stokes Croft was also damaged in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Supt Matt Ebbs said: &#8220;We would like to assure the public we do not believe there to be any wider threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Anybody with concerns is welcome to speak to officers on the ground, but we would also appeal to anybody with CCTV, dashcam or mobile phone footage which may assist our enquiries to contact us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous driving after three pedestrians were hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-732585","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\/732585","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=732585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}