incident on corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets in Melbourne’s CBD.
‘It just mowed everybody down’: Pedestrians hit by SUV in Melbourne CBD
December 21 2017 - 5:12PM
Several people have been injured after pedestrians were hit by an SUV on the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets in Melbourne’s CBD.
Up to 16 people are believed to have been hit at the intersection.
Police have arrested the driver of the car. They do not yet know if it is a terror-related incident.
Sue from Walker’s Doughnuts on Elizabeth Street told radio station 3AW that she heard screams before she saw “people flying everywhere”.
“We could hear this noise, as we looked left, we saw this white car, it just mowed everybody down,” she said.
“People are flying everywhere. We heard thump, thump. People are running everywhere.”
One ambulance has just left the scene.
Police have blocked off Flinders Street from Queens Street to Swanston Street.
Hundreds of people are milling around the edges of the crash scene with police quelling a group in the crowd calling out that the incident was a terrorist attack.
A heavy police presence rushed to the scene just before 5pm on Thursday.
Footage from the scene shows crowds of scattered people surrounding the white SUV in the middle of the intersection.
Dozens of police cars, fire trucks and ambulances have descended on Flinders Street.
Police have cordoned off the street between Elizabeth and Queen streets and are not allowing any pedestrians through.