- A white SUV crashed into the crowd of pedestrians near to Flinders Street Station during peak hour
- At least 14 people are in hospital, several critical including one child with serious head injuries
- Witnesses described seeing the car run a red light and hurtle towards the crowds, hitting a tram stop bollard
- Two men were wrestled from the car with the alleged driver wearing a red and black checked shirt
- He sat calmly propped up against a wall with his hands cuffed while talking to police minutes after crash
- The incident comes almost a year after the Bourke Street Mall rampage and brought the CBD to a standstill
Minutes after he allegedly ploughed through a dozens of pedestrians in Melbourne’s Finder’s Street, the suspected driver was calmly chatting to police.
Slouched against a wall with his hands cuffed behind his back, the swarthy, bearded man wearing a red and black checked shirt showed no signs of agitation as he looked over a sea of victims in front of him.
Earlier he was wrestled from the car by police officers along with another man in a white t-shirt who was sitting in the passenger seat, with shotguns put to their heads.
Minutes after he allegedly ploughed through a dozens of pedestrians in Melbourne’s Finder’s Street, the suspected driver was calmly chatting to police
More than a dozen pedestrians, including a toddler, have been injured after a car ploughed into rush hour crowds (pictured)
The man’s white Suzuki Vitara 4WD with green P Plates on it lay wrapped around a concrete bollard just a few metres away.
Police alleged the man ‘deliberately’ ran over crowd of people, seriously injuring 14 people including several in a critical condition, before crashing into a tram stop.
Their motives are as yet unknown and police have not commented on whether the attack was terror related.
‘At this stage, we believe it was a deliberate act. The motivations are unknown. It’s still early days in the investigation,’ Victoria Police Commander Russell Barrett said.
Both men, aged between 25 and 35, were eventually taken to Melbourne Police station to face further interrogations by detectives.
Victims of the rampage included a preschool aged child with serious head injuries and several others in critical condition who were rushed to hospital.
More could have been injured if not for the vehicle crashing into a bollard at the tram stop out the front of Flinders Street Station.
Slouched against a wall with his hands cuffed behind his back, the swarthy, bearded man wearing a red and black checked shirt showed no signs of agitation
Footage shows one of the men in a white shirt with a beard (pictured) being pulled to the gutter away from the vehicle
Witness described seeing the car hurtling towards the crowd, ploughing through people in its path and crashing into the pole.
‘It just mowed everybody down, people were flying everywhere. We heard thump, thump. People are running everywhere,’ one told radio station 3AW:
Dramatic footage then showed a number of injured pedestrians being treated by passersby as they wait for paramedics.
‘He has gone straight through the red light at pace and it was bang, bang, bang. It was just one after the other,’ another told the Herald Sun.
‘There were bodies on the ground and people running up to them – it was mayhem.’
Chaotic scenes unfolded during peak-hour as the white SUV crashed into the group of panicked pedestrians (pictured)