Police investigating after a car mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians outside a busy London station have said the crash was not terror-related.
Emergency services were scrambled to the scene outside Starbucks next to King’s Cross Station shortly after rush hour on Wednesday evening.
Dramatic images from the street show a lime green Smart car with a shattered windscreen as onlookers crowd around the area, shortly after 7pm.
An air ambulance landed near the scene. A man was rush to hospital following the incident, where police said he remains in a stable condition.
A Met spokesman said the incident was not terror-related, adding: “We were called to reports of a collision between a car and a pedestrian at the junction between Pentonville Road and York Way.
“The car left the road during the incident. A man was injured and was taken to a central London hospital.
“The driver stopped at the scene and is assisting the police with their enquiries.”
