Several injured in police car – Swedish Dagbladet

The driver did not stop the car, according to police.

The collision occurred when the police were alerted to Medborgarplatsen in Södermalm for a larger fraction there early on Thursday.

According to several witnesses TT spoken with a civilian police car drove straight into a group of young people. And a video published by aftonbladet.se shows, while sirens howling, how a civilian car violently running on multiple people thrown by the blast.

– The driver would stop the car outside a fast food restaurant at Medborgarplatsen and did not Stop the car, said police spokesperson Towe Hägg.

A report will now be submitted to the police unit for internal investigations.

According to the initial information from the police conducted four people to hospital, three of those with back pain and one with asthma problems. Later in the evening it was stated that all four were conscious when they were taken to hospital, but police had no indication of damage.

Traffic researcher Jorgen Lundälv research on emergency driving. He has seen a movie of the collision and is shocked.

– I have not seen something similar with emergency vehicles, he said.

– If you drive up in a square and hurt people, I see it is a form of assault. This is unprotected road users.

Lundälv calls for police cars should be equipped with a so-called black box and a video camera.

Adam Hemberg, 19, sat on a terrace at Medborgarplatsen when everything happened.

– I heard a police siren switch on and turned around. I saw a civilian police car that burned in properly remove the square, he tells TT.

– The slowed down and I guess it ran in maybe 20 below 25 km h when it hit some people.

He says he saw two hit people, one that was two meters away from the car and that was three meters away.

Joar Nordenström tells expressen.se that he saw the police car turn in from Götgatan and continue on the high speed of the square.

– It does not seem to make any attempt to slow down, so it runs right into a group of young people standing in a container, he said.

– Many of them pounded the bottom of the bonnet and the windscreen. One person fell to the ground just outside the police car and another person appeared to be unconscious, a few meters from the car.

Joar Nordenström says he saw three people carried away by paramedics on a stretcher and that many young people were shocked by the incident.

Another witness also tells of the high speed.

– Police drove really fast, he did not have to run so fast, says Ihab.