- Police had to restrain an irate man after a car ploughed into pedestrians
- Car crashed into crowd of people in the Melbourne CBD on Thursday afternoon
- A man appeared to be yelling and swearing at the driver calling them a ‘dog’
Eyewitness video has emerged from outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street station after a driver drove into Christmas crowds injuring at least 16.
The video shows injured pedestrians lying on the road being treated by concerned passersby as they wait for paramedics to arrive.
Another video taken by an onlooker shows police restrained an irate man who appeared to be abusing the driver of a car who allegedly ploughed into pedestrians.
A car crashed into a crowd of people at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station at 4.41pm on Thursday.
Police at the scene had to restrain a man and ordered him to ‘get back’ as he was apparently yelling abuse at the driver of the car as reported by Seven News.
The shocking moment police restrained an irate man who appeared to be abusing the driver of a car which ploughed into pedestrians in Melbourne’s CBD has been caught on camera
A car crashed into a crowd of people at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station at 4.41pm on Thursday
The man can be heard calling the driver a ‘dog’ and requesting to go to the police station so he could ‘f**k him up’.
Paramedics are treating 12 people at the scene of the incident, including a young child who has a head injury.
Seven people in total have been taken to hospital following the incident.
Ambulance Victoria said paramedics were called to the scene at the corner of Elizabeth Street and Flinders Street.
Seven people in total have been taken to hospital following the incident
The driver of the car has been arrested.
A witness told 3AW there were about ‘five to seven people laying on the ground’.
‘It just mowed everybody down, people were flying everywhere,’ another witness said.
A witness told 3AW there were about ‘five to seven people laying on the ground’