Three suspects were arrested An arrest was made Saturday after a car allegedly plowed into a crowd of holiday shoppers at a Christmas market in a small town south of Manchester, England.
Hundreds of people organized a Christmas market in the city center Congleton, England, According to local newspaper Stoke Sentinel, when a driver in a Volkswagen Golf, traveling at a speed of about 50 miles per hour, plowed into the crowd on the pedestrian street at around 4pm.
“Fortunately, no one was injured during the incident,” Cheshire Police the statement said.
A witness described the incident as “absolutely horrific”.
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“A car screeched down the High Street, which was full of stalls and people,” Steve Brown, owner of 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 crashed into a pedestrian-only area in Congleton, England.
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Police said the vehicle was found abandoned and three men are in custody in connection with the incident.
“There was a woman and a child, they were a bit shaken,” Mandy Neville, who was working in a shop near the market when the incident happened, told the newspaper. “The woman said she hurt her leg. She didn’t know if something had hit her leg when the car hit, but no one was actually hurt.’
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She added: “We brought the guy in here and gave him a drink. He was very shocked. He was a very young guy, I think he was about 10.”
