Bellingham car crash leaves one critical and four injured after 'drink driver' ploughs Mercedes into 'car wash workers'.

INJURED car washers are tended to by ­passers-by after a suspected drink-driver mowed them down in a row yesterday.

The motorist, in his 30s, had been a customer at the car wash when an argument erupted with several Romanian workers around 8.20am.

Bloodied victims were seen laying on the pavement in the aftermath of the horror crash Five people have been rushed to hospital after a car ploughed into pedestrians in south-east London Three people are in a critical condition after the 'drink driver' ploughed into them this morning Five victims injured, one critically after a Mercedes left the road in Bellingham, London

Dramatic images show bloodied victims strewn across the pavement after the driver smashed into a car wash, leaving one person "trapped underneath".

Four men and a woman were hurt as the car sped on to a pavement to hit them — leaving one trapped under it.

One victim, 25, was fighting for his life last night.

In addition to the victim fighting for life, police said a man, 25, and a woman, 35, were  "serious but stable" and two other men, aged 36 and 46, had minor injuries.

The driver got into his Mercedes  to plough into workers, scattering debris and footwear across the pavement in  Catford, South East London.

He then fled, chased by two men — one soaked in blood — who yelled: "What the f*** have you done?"

Witness Vincent Bakare, 30, said: "He had a big disagreement  in the car wash.

"I'm not sure if he told them to 'f*** off' or they did. He zoomed off in his car."

Colin Liddell, 29, added: "The  car turned round, accelerated and hit the people. He intended to."

Misasu Towolawi, 26, said: "We  saw  people covered in blood."

Firefighters joined other emergency units at the scene, below, and freed the victim stuck beneath the car.

Witnesses are seen helping victims in shocking footage of the aftermath Five people have been rushed to hospital after a car ploughed into pedestrians in south-east London Shocking photos show the aftermath of the crash, which left three people fighting for their lives One woman was reportedly trapped under the car after it ploughed into her early this morning

Witnesses described scenes of "carnage" at the car wash.^[1]

Minasu Towolawi told the Evening Standard^[2]: "I went up there and I just saw carnage. There were two men lying flat on their backs there.

"There was another lady was being sat upright and people were trying to get her awake. She looked gone to me.

"They were all just wailing and crying."

Eyewitness Colin Liddell, 29, added: "I saw the car turn around at the junction and then he put his accelerator to the floor and hit the bollard and five people before he hit the wall."

Police arrested a man on suspicion of causing injury by dangerous driving and drink-driving.

He was taken to hospital with a head injury.

The Mercedes appears to have come off the road and careered through a row of bollards before hitting a low wall at the end of a hedge.

The car's bonnet and boot were popped open by the impact and its airbags all deployed. Debris was left strewn across the pavement.

There was no suggestion the car was ploughed into crowds intentionally, a Met Police spokesman said Two victims are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while three remain critical All victims were treated for a range of head, chest and leg injuries and the driver has been arrested Police collect debris from the road traffic accident in Bellingham, London

A Met Police spokesman said: "Police were called at approximately 8.20am on Sunday, 26 February, to reports of a car in collision with a wall and a number of pedestrians on Bromley Road in Bellingham.

Officers, the London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance are in attendance.

"Five people were treated at the scene. They have all been taken to south and east London hospitals.

"We await an update on their condition."

Police said the driver was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and dangerous driving

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at 8.18am today (26 February) to reports of a road traffic collision on Bromley Road, Catford.

"We sent four ambulance crews, an air ambulance crew, a fast responder in a car, an advanced paramedic and an incident response officer to the scene, with the first of our medics arriving in under seven minutes.

"We treated five patients for a range of head, chest and leg injuries at the scene and took all five to hospital as a priority."

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