Woman in hospital with potentially life-changing injuries after being ‘deliberately hit by car’

Eyewitnesses claim man forced victim into footwell before speeding off

Chiara Giordano
Tuesday 18 February 2020 16:38 GMT
Google street view image of Beddington Lane in Sutton, south London.
Google street view image of Beddington Lane in Sutton, south London.

A woman is in hospital with potentially life-changing injuries after allegedly being deliberately hit by a car following a row in south London.

Police were called to reports of a woman being forced into a car following an altercation with a man in Beddington Lane, Sutton, shortly after 9pm on Monday.

The Metropolitan Police was later told by London Ambulance Service that a woman, believed to be the same person, had been taken to hospital from a nearby address.

She remains in hospital “in a potentially life-changing condition”, the force said.

Dave Wightwick, landlord of the Harvest Home pub on Beddington Lane, told the Sutton Guardian the man had deliberately driven at the woman before forcing her into the car and speeding off.

He added: “There were a couple of women standing outside and I was working behind the bar and I went out to the situation as quickly as I could.

“I saw enough to see it wasn’t very nice.”

Mr Wightwick said his customers had seen the car, a dark coloured BMW 5 series, being deliberately driven at the woman.

“We think they [the man and woman] had come from the BP garage up the road and they were arguing,” he said. “I think they were known to each other.”

He said the woman had been forced into the footwell of the front passenger seat.

The pub landlord said a woman closer to the vehicle had tried to stop the man but he had pushed her out of the way.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told The Independent it was unclear how the woman sustained her injuries.

The force added in a statement: “It is believed the individuals were known to each other.

“Inquiries continue. No arrests have been made.”

Additional reporting by PA

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