Four people were injured following reports that a car was driven on the wrong side of the road early on June 13. Police were called to Shaftesbury Avenue in west London, where one person was left in a life-threatening condition. The 31-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Police are treating the incident as an isolated one and say it is not terrorism-related.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said that detectives were working quickly to progress inquires into the incident-reportedly preceded by an altercation at a nightclub-which saw the car mount the pavement. The area around Shaftesbury Avenue remained cordoned off.
The police have charged Salih Khater with attempted murder after he drove a car at cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into barriers outside the Houses of Parliament in August 2018. Three people were injured, but all survived. Khater was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 14 2019.
Incidents involving vehicles being driven deliberately at pedestrians have increasingly been linked with terrorism, but it is unclear whether this latest episode has any political significance. In March last year, a man killed six people on Westminster Bridge and injured 50 others in a vehicle-ramming terrorist attack.
In April this year, an individual killed two people and injured several others in another vehicle-ramming attack at a busy intersection in the Canadian city of Toronto. The 25-year-old has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder
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