Car hits pedestrians outside Natural History Museum

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Several people have been injured after a car reportedly drive into people outside London’s Natural History Museum.

Scotland Yard said “a number of pedestrians have been injured” in an incident in Exhibition Road in South Kensington shortly after 2.20pm on Saturday.

A Metropolitan police spokesman said: “Officers are on scene, and the London ambulance service have been called. A man has been arrested at the scene.”

More details soon …


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/07/car-hits-pedestrians-outside-natural-history-museum

---

Link to tweet

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. Thoughts and prayers for London.

Make it stop.

[Dave Starsky]

4. With all of this thinking and praying going on of late...

I'm surprised we haven't been able to both invent warp drive AND bring Jesus back to Earth.

[IronLionZion]

12. With too many thoughts going towards murder victims

they can't give any thought towards anything else. They must conserve their thoughts of course. Same with prayers

[ret5hd]

6. Well, I'm sure that gives them a glimmer of hope.

[PSPS]

11. LOL.

[mnhtnbb]

2. I know exactly where that is. Went to the Victoria & Albert Museum

which is right across the street from the Natural History Museum--one Saturday in
January 2016-- when we were in London. My husband had gone off on his own day trip.

I was amazed at the number of families--people with little children and babies/toddlers in strollers--that were
waiting in line to gain entrance to the Natural History Museum.

There could have been a lot of small children who might have been victims if this was indeed a terrorist attack.

[Orrex]

3. Can't wait for the NRA parrots to start up

"Cars are as dangerous as guns. If we get rid of guns, people will use cars."

Three... Two...

[christx30]

5. Humans have been killing each other since the beginning.

Before guns, we had swords. Before swords, we had rocks. Take away guns, you'll have knives, cars, fertilizer explosives. Guns just make the killing easier for the murderers. Because guns are not the problem. Humanity is the problem.
It's never going to end. I believe after the apocalypse, there is going to be a time where there are just 2 people left in the world. And one of them is going to kill the other.

[sarisataka]

7. Exactly

and is why focusing solely on guns is myopic. If nothing is done to address the causes, the means simply shifts to other weapons.

Why acid attacks are on the rise in Britain
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/27/acid-attacks-rise-united-kingdom/100739780/

[Lokilooney]

15. Or they kill each other

[Hangingon]

9. Told you so...

[christx30]

13. I'm not pro- or anti-gun.

I'm anti-humanity. I honestly don't care about guns. Gather each of them up and put them in a huge fire. Throw them out into space. Make possessing one punishable by death. Sounds good to me.
Someone's going to pick up a sharp rock and split the skull of another person. Murder will never go away. It'll just take a little more skill.

[Coventina]

10. The prophecy has been fulfilled!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. FYI, "Voice of Europe" is a far right anti-Muslim twitter feed

who should be ignored. As can be seen by them retweeting Tommy Robinson, or the approving tweet of "Romanian patriots destroy Muslim call to prayer in opera by singing national anthem" (a few Romanians in an audience tried to sing their national anthem, extremely tunelessly, over a section of a choral work, written in 2000, that features a Muslim call to prayer). Look at their Twitter page, and it suggests you follow Tommy Robinson, a far right English agitator, or Paul Joseph Watson, the British employee of Infowars. Best not to give them any links.

From the BBC:

Several people have been injured after a car hit pedestrians near the Natural History Museum in London, police say.

The Metropolitan Police said one person had been detained following the incident at 14:20 BST in Exhibition Road in South Kensington.

Video footage that emerged on Twitter showed a man being restrained on the ground.

A BBC reporter at the scene said she had been told by police that the injuries were minor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41538762

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Natural History Museum crash 'not terror-related'

A crash outside a London museum that injured 11 people was not terror-related, police say.

A car mounted the pavement outside the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, at 14:20 BST.

The Metropolitan Police earlier said one person had been arrested and video footage that emerged on Twitter showed a man being restrained on the ground.

An update from the force said the incident was now being treated as "a road traffic collision".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41538762

[Denzil_DC]

16. Nigel Farage and rent-a-gob Katie Hopkins deeply disappointed it wasn't a terror attack

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Otto English @Otto_English

The moment accident happened Farage was on Fox talking up terrorists and talking down Britain. A complete shower #Quitling #SouthKensington

Nigel Farage ✔ @Nigel_Farage

We have 3,000 suspected terrorists living in the UK & 23,000 people known to security services who could do us harm.

Link to tweet

Otto English @Otto_English

Life comes at you fast @KTHopkins pic.twitter.com/m5hsas4nyv

Otto English @Otto_English

In one hour this afternoon @KTHopkins sent nine inflammatory tweets about a terror attack at #NaturalHistoryMuseum then deleted the lot pic.twitter.com/QWEKYviZws

It looks like it was an Uber cab, which is raising all sorts of other issues.

[JI7]

17. just like the right wingers with the Vegas killer

hoping it was some minority or liberal .