Two people have been killed after a car crashed into a family of four in South London this afternoon.
Witnesses described seeing the car, which was being chased by police, smash into a family as it turned into Lennard Road, Penge, at around 2.05pm.
They said people tried to lift the crashed car off a little girl who was struck. The IPCC has been called in to investigate because of police involvement in the chase. It is believed two other children may have been taken to hospital.
Moments before the collision there was an incident at a nearby Sainsbury’s and it has been reported that there may have been an abduction of a child. Tayla Goodman told Sky News she saw ‘children running away’ from the scene in ‘absolute tears, unable to speak’.
She said ‘then a lady ran out across from Penge east station shouting ‘that’s my baby’ … ‘that’s my baby over there’.
‘It just looked like complete carnage. It was absolutely awful to see what happened.’
She said the car was ‘ploughed into the grass bank’ of the housing estate and described people ‘running through’ police tape and screaming.
One man who lives near the scene said: ‘It was a horrific scene on a sunny afternoon in a sleepy place.’ There were reports that two other people were also hurt in the crash, but police could not confirm this.
The witness said that a black car was being chased by two police BMWs when the driver lost control as he turned into Lennard Road.
‘He lost control and ploughed into a family that was walking on the pavement down Lennard Road.
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