Eleven hurt, one critically, after bystanders are mown down at Scunthorpe car meet

One person's critically injured, four others are seriously hurt after the incident on Saturday night

Author: Richard MuriePublished 25th Sep 2022
Last updated 25th Sep 2022

One person's been critically injured and ten more hurt, four of them seriously, after bystanders at a car meet in Scunthorpe were struck by a vehicle.

It happened last night (Sat 24 Oct) at the Flixborough Industrial Estate, just after 9 o'clock.

A 17 year old's been detained by Humberside Police on suspicion of causing serious injury through dangerous driving.

Inspector John Rickells said, "This was a multi-agency incident response and we worked with our emergency service colleagues to provide emergency first aid and establish the circumstances of the incident.

"At this time our investigations are at a really early stage, and we will release more information when we are able to do so.

"We are aware that a number of people left the scene prior to emergency services arriving, and they may have witnessed what happened. We would ask that anyone who may have mobile phone /dashcam footage of the vehicles involved both prior to and at the time of the collision to contact us so that we can establish exactly how the incident happened."

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