BLOODBATH ON BRIDGE
Hundreds flee as car ploughs into victims
HORRIFIED survivors gave dramatic accounts of the bloodbath on Westminster Bridge last night.
Rob Lyon, 34, told how he felt like he was in the middle of a Hollywood movie as he watched the Hyundai i40 4x4 plough into cyclists and pedestrians.
Still shaking with shock, he said: “It was harrowing. I just sort of went into shock mode.
“I just looked around me and couldn’t really work out what had happened.”
Marketing executive Rob, from Rugby, Warks, added: “I looked up and saw a dark grey car clearly hitting people as it came towards me.
Jumped
“I couldn’t see the driver. I saw it come up on to the kerb, 10 or 15 metres in front of me.
“I instinctively jumped off the pavement. I was about a metre away from being hit myself.
“It just carried on up the bridge. I could see people getting hit by the car at speed. I saw five people injured around me.
“I was numb. It felt like I was in the middle of a Hollywood movie. You see these things but suddenly I was in the middle of it.’’
An American tourist said: “It was all over in 30 seconds.
“This dark-coloured vehicle went up on the kerb and hit loads of people. Then it just gunned off.’’
Steve Voake, 55, who was walking across the bridge, said: “I saw a trainer lying in the road and when I looked more closely I saw that there were a couple of bodies.
“When I looked over the side there was another body lying in the water with blood all around it.’’
Van driver Mitchell Spree, 27, who crossed the bridge moments after the carnage, told how he saw one woman crying while five other victims were screaming in agony.
Student Fin Maguire, 20, said: “I saw bodies lying on the ground. They were all badly injured.
“There were car parts on the floor – bits of the bumper broken off.’’
Shocked Eileen Twyford, from Stoke-on-Trent, who had been on a tourist bus, watched the car skidding over the bridge towards Parliament before ploughing into a woman. She said: “The woman was trapped right under the wheel pinned against the wall.” Hundreds panicking pedestrians ran into Westminster Underground Station in a bid to escape the carnage. Roadworker Angus MacIntosh, 41, said: “It was pure pandemonium.’’ Last night a spokesman for Port of London Authority said a woman who dived off Westminster Bridge into the Thames to escape had been rescued alive by a nearby boat. She was given “urgent medical treatment on a nearby pier”. Four students from Edge Hill University, in Ormskirk, Lancs, were among those injured. Two were named as Owen Lambert, 18, from Morecambe, and Travis Frain, from Darwin, Lancs.
I was numb. it felt like I was in a movie