Three suspects were arrested on Saturday after a car was allegedly run over by a crowd of holiday shoppers at a Christmas market in a small town south of Manchester, England.
Hundreds of people were enjoying the Christmas market in the town center of Congleton, England, when a driver of a Volkswagen Golf traveling at around 50mph drove into the crowds on a pedestrian street at around 4pm: 00, according to the local Stoke Sentinel newspaper.
“Fortunately, no one was injured in the crash,” Cheshire Police said in a statement.
A witness called the incident “absolutely horrendous”.
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“A car has come screeching down the High Street, which is full of stalls and people,” Steve Brown, who owns an antique shop near where the car crashed into the crowd, told the Sentinel. “There are hundreds of people here, people with children and dogs and many traders.
The car allegedly ended up in a pedestrian area in Congleton, England.
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Police said the car was found abandoned and three men were in custody in connection with the crash.
“There was a woman and a child, they were a little shaken,” Mandy Neville, who worked in a shop near the market when the incident happened, told the newspaper. “The woman said she had hurt her leg. She didn’t know if something had hit her leg when the car crashed, but in fact nobody was injured properly.”
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He added: “We brought the boy over here and gave him a drink. He was quite rattled. He was just a kid, I think about 10 years old.”
