Twins were also injured when the driver lost control of the vehicle and ploughed into children on the pavement
A MAN is chased by police and arrested just yards from where a stolen car ploughed into a family of five, killing two of them.
A man wearing a black t-shirt can be seen fleeing across a busy street into the front garden of a house in Penge, South London, after the smash. As he trips over, a policeman gives chase and pins him to the ground before arresting him on the concrete front drive.
Ten-year-old Makayah McDermott and his aunt Rosie Cooper died as a result of the smash. An un-named eleven year old girl, thought to be Cooper's daughter, suffered severe leg injuries but Makayah's 13-year-old twin sisters Niyah and Yayhla survived after passers-by lifted the crash car up to let them scramble free with scratches.
Witness Tayla Goodman said she also saw another woman running towards the crash scene shouting "that's my baby, that's my baby over there".
Police say the vehicle had been stolen - though it has also been claimed a child may have been in the back seat, leading to fears of an abduction.
A Met spokesman later confirmed a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and theft of a vehicle.
Venissa Vassell, 18, said the twins were initially trapped under the car and 20 people came to lift the car up to free them.
The girls "crawled out", she said, but another girl, aged around 11, who was later taken away by ambulance, was screaming "I can't feel my legs".
Vassell tried unsuccessfully to revive Cooper: "I did CPR on this lady. I blew in her mouth. It wasn't working. Her body was trying to revive."
She also said that the boy who died was fine one moment, but then "by the time I came back to speak to the little girl to say 'your brother is alright' he was passed out.
"You can't physically do nothing to a body that's in that condition, you can see bones and flesh - I think he shed more blood than anyone else there."
She said that the accident "all happened too quick" and she "could not explain" what she saw.
An eyewitness who declined to be named arrived on the scene to see a white man fleeing from the vehicle.
She said: "When I got to the scene I saw the guy running off from the car. He was obviously the driver.
"There was a little boy under the car, he looked about nine or ten. And there was a lady being given CPR. There was another little girl who seemed to have hurt legs, and two more girls who had a couple of scratches.
"We believe the little boy was the nephew and the lady was his aunt. They were on their way to the park when the car mounted the pavement and hit them.
"They were doing CPR for a long time before he ambulance arrived. It's terrifying, I was waking their with my daughter only two hours earlier.
"It just beggars belief doesn't it. It's tragic. They were just going to have a nice day in the park and that idiot crushed a whole family."
She said the driver appeared to be limping as he fled the black Ford Focus."
Another witness told The Sun Online: "I was in the junction and a police car came past, following another car and basically as it went round the corner it just lost control and went into the pavement.
"On the pavement was a woman with two children and a man and it dragged the man underneath the car.
"It was very fast, and happened very quickly. There was a lady in the police car and she looked quite shaken and that was it really - she stayed in the car, it was quite scary."
London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance attended and two people were pronounced dead at the scene.
One man who lives near the scene said: "It was a horrific scene on a sunny afternoon in a sleepy place."
He said that a black car was being chased by two police BMWs when it tried to turn into Lennard Road, Penge.
"He lost control and ploughed into a family that was walking on the pavement down Lennard Road.
"People were trying to lift a car off a little girl. The police officers that were chasing were distraught," the man said.
Ilya Baxter, 23, saw the police chase from a window in his flat.
He described seeing a white man aged between 18 and 25 running across the road around the corner from the crashed car, before police caught him.
He said: "I heard the cars and saw someone pointing to the police where he went. I knocked on the window and pointed."
He said that the man was hiding in the bushes.
Police then caught the man, handcuffed him, and then went to help the injured, he added.
Tayla Goodman told Sky News she saw children running away from the scene in "absolute tears, unable to speak".
"Then a lady ran out across from Penge East Station shouting 'that's my baby, that's my baby over there'. It just looked like complete carnage. It was absolutely awful to see what happened."
Another eyewitness, who also did not want to be named, said that apart from the two people who died, he saw two casualties who were children being taken away by ambulance.
Cops say the driver of the car has been arrested and remains in custody at a south London police station.
Both the Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission has been informed, police said.
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