A van has slammed into a crowd of pedestrians on The Strand in London leading to the arrest of a 26-year-old man.
London Metropolitan Police said they are “on the scene and dealing with a collision close to The Strand, WC2. Officers were called at 11:41am on Tuesday March 18 following a collision of a van and pedestrians.”
“Three pedestrians suffered injuries, with a woman in her twenties sadly pronounced dead at the scene. Two pedestrians have been taken to hospital, one has potentially life-threatening injuries, and the other has minor injuries.
“The driver of the van, a 26-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion causing death by careless driving and driving with concentration of specified controlled drug above specified limit.He remains in custody.” it said.
Police say that while enquiries are “ongoing” the incident is not being treated as “terrorism-related”.
Multiple injuries have been reported while one woman in her 20s has been confirmed to have lost her life in the incident.
A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said,“We were called today (Tuesday) at 11.39am to reports of an incident in The Strand, WC2. We sent resources to the scene including ambulance crews, advanced paramedics, an incident response officer, a clinical team manager and London’s air ambulance. We treated four people at the scene. Sadly, despite our best efforts one person was pronounced dead. We took two other people to hospital and one was discharged at scene.”