Dramatic footage has emerged showing a man being arrested while lying on the side of the road after a car smashed into a group of pedestrians on Melbourne’s Flinders Street.
Two police officers are shown grabbing the bearded man who is wearing a white shirt while he lays on the street with his hands behind his back.
The man has his eyes closed and appears to be unresponsive before one of the officers begins slapping the man in the face.
The man is struck twice before opening his eyes.
Two police officers are shown grabbing the bearded man who is wearing a white shirt while he lays on the street with his hands behind his back
More than a dozen pedestrians, including a toddler, have been injured after a car ploughed into rush hour crowds.
Chaotic scenes unfolded as the white SUV crashed into the group of panicked commuters and shoppers at the corner of Melbourne’s Elizabeth Street and Flinders Street at 4.41pm on Thursday.
At least 13 people, one in a serious condition, were taken to hospital including a pre-school aged child with serious head injuries.
It is unknown if this is a terror related incident although two men in the vehicle have been arrested and are in police custody.
Footage shows one of the men in a white shirt with a beard being pulled to the gutter away from the vehicle.
The second man in a red checked shirt, also with a beard, was arrested a short time later.
An eye-witness described seeing people the car hurtling towards the crowd.
She told radio station 3AW: ‘It just mowed everybody down, people were flying everywhere.
‘We heard thump, thump. People are running everywhere.’
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More than a dozen pedestrians, including a toddler, have been injured after a car ploughed into rush hour crowds (pictured)
Chaotic scenes unfolded as the white SUV crashed into the group of panicked pedestrians
A car crashed into the crowds at Melbourne ‘s Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street (pictured)
Ambulance Victoria said paramedics were called to the scene (pictured) at 4.41pm Thursday
Vince Harris, the manager of the Freechoice tobacconist at Flinders Street Station, was nearby in the immediate aftermath of the crash.
He was on the scene from about two minutes after the car collided and could see the cracked windscreen and Good Samaritans trying to save injured pedestrians.
‘A few ladies were screaming but it was calm – there were no sirens, nothing,’ Mr Harris said.
‘I was here when the other one (the Bourke Street tragedy) happened …. you get desensitised.’
One witness’s husband told Daily Mail Australia his wife had been taken to Melbourne West with other onlookers to be interviewed.
Police have locked down vast areas of the city taking in Flinders Street, Flinders Lane and Elizabeth Street.
Footage shows a number of injured pedestrians being treated by passerbys as they wait for paramedics.
A child at pre-school suffered head injuries and was taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital in a serious condition.
Three people were taken to The Alfred Hospital and three people were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital but the extent of the injuries are unknown.
Eye-witnesses told 9 News the saw the white SUV being driven at about 60km/h before it smashed into dozens of pedestrians.
Another witness told 3AW there were about ‘five to seven people laying on the ground’.
Three people were taken to The Alfred Hospital and three people were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Police said the driver of the car and a second man were arrested and are in police custody
A child at pre-school suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Royal Children’s Hospital
Lachlan Read, 20, told The Herald Sun the whole rampage lasted about 15 seconds.
‘He has gone straight through the red light at pace and it was bang, bang, bang. It was just one after the other,’ Mr Read said.
‘There were bodies on the ground and people running up to them – it was mayhem.’
A childcare centre and other buildings along Flinders Street were evacuated.
The carnage comes almost a year after six people were killed and 30 injured when a car ploughed through the Bourke Street Mall.
The driver, Dimitrious Gargasoulas, was charged with six counts of murder after he allegedly used a maroon Holden Commodore sedan to run down shoppers during the lunch break.
A child and two adults were amoung those who died following the attack as well as a three-month-old baby boy.
A witness told 3AW there were about ‘five to seven people laying on the ground’ (pictured)
‘People were flying everywhere,’ a witness told the 3AW radio station on Thursday (pictured)
Police said the extent of injuries is unknown and the driver of the car has been arrested
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