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| Multiple people injured as pedestrians hit by vehicle outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station | |
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| A white SUV rammed into pedestrians in Melbourne, Australia, leaving at least 13 people injured. The car reportedly crashed into a tram stop, and the driver has been arrested. | A white SUV rammed into pedestrians in Melbourne, Australia, leaving at least 13 people injured. The car reportedly crashed into a tram stop, and the driver has been arrested. |
| The incident occurred on Flinders Street between Elizabeth and Swanston streets, in front of Flinders Street Station just after 4:30pm, according to police. Paramedics have taken 13 people to local hospitals and are assessing two more people at the scene. Some are in serious condition. A preschool-aged child is among them, according to local media. | |
| “As it (the car) approached this intersection here… it just mowed everybody down, people were flying everywhere,” Sue, a witness, told 3AW Drive. | “As it (the car) approached this intersection here… it just mowed everybody down, people were flying everywhere,” Sue, a witness, told 3AW Drive. |
| Another witness, David, told ABC the car was going “between 60 and 100kms an hour” and “hit people in a fair speed and at least one or two of them got thrown pretty high into the air.” | |
| Police cordoned off the area, and Flinders Lane is blocked off through to Elizabeth Street. |