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| Natural History Museum crash: People hit by car | |
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| Several pedestrians have been injured after a car hit people near the Natural History Museum in London, police say. | |
| The Metropolitan Police said one person had been detained following the incident in Exhibition Road in South Kensington. | |
| A BBC reporter at the scene said she had been told by police the injuries were minor. | |
| Police said inquiries are under way to establish the circumstances and any motive. | |
| A Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister is "being kept up to date on events". | |
| BBC reporter Chloe Hayward was leaving the Natural History Museum as the incident happened. | |
| "I could see a car diagonally across the road, looking like it was going into one of the boulders on the side of the road, and I could see a crowd of people around what was clearly one or two people on the pavement," she said. | |
| She added there were now armed police at the scene. | |
| "We have had lots of police coming onto the scene, helicopters above, and I can see an ambulance which is definitely having someone put in, but it isn't clear how bad that injury is." | |
| An eyewitness who was walking to the Science Museum on the same street, said: "When waiting for the light, we heard what I thought was gunshots and saw a car drive over the pavement. We just ran. My friend dived on the floor and cut her hands. | |
| The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "When it calmed down we walked back to where we'd been and saw a gentleman on the floor being restrained by police." |