An air ambulance landed on a busy west London shopping street as paramedics raced to treat three people after a car drove into pedestrians outside a Marks & Spencer store.
The crash happened on The Broadway in Ealing at around 2.29pm on Thursday, with witnesses describing a scene of chaos as emergency services swarmed the area.
“Three pedestrians taken to hospital after car crashes outside Ealing M&S, air ambulance dispatched.”
Mark Uddin, a road safety campaigner from Ealing who arrived minutes after the incident, said he believed the car “drove into three pedestrians”. “Two of them were sitting up and being treated,” he said. He added that another pedestrian “seemed to be more seriously injured and was lying down.”
A witness who filmed the aftermath posted video on X, showing a damaged car with rear bumper damage. “This looks serious,” they said. “One person has been picked up and put into an ambulance, and there’s two people lying on the floor.”
London Ambulance Service dispatched multiple resources, including ambulance crews, paramedics in fast response cars, a volunteer emergency responder crew, an incident response officer, and London’s Air Ambulance. A spokesperson said: “We were called at 2.29pm today (27 June) to reports of a road traffic collision in Ealing Broadway, W5. We treated three patients at the scene and took one of them to a major trauma centre by road as a priority. The other two patients were taken to a local hospital.”
The Broadway was closed in both directions between High Street and Spring Bridge Road, causing traffic queues and bus diversions. The fire and rescue service also attended the scene.
Police cordoned off the busy shopping area as investigations began. The Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade have been contacted for comment but have yet to release further details. All three victims remain in hospital, with one in a major trauma centre.