Battersea Ferrari crash witnesses say £208,000 supercar was ‘racing a Range Rover’ when it ploughed into crowd and sent teens flying over railings onto car below
Six people were taken to hospital while the Ferrari driver has been arrest on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving
A FERRARI driver hit seven teenagers yesterday while “showing off” — sending one flying off a bridge on to a car 12ft below.
A 17-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl remain in hospital after the collision on a busy A-road yesterday morning.
Witnesses said the £208,000 sports car had been speeding down Battersea Park Road when it made a sudden U-turn and crashed, leaving the teens in hospital.
Two of the teens remain in hospital, but their injuries are not thought to be serious.
Five other pedestrians - four boys and a girl, all in their late teens - were treated for minor injuries.
The driver has been arrested and is being questioned by police.
Shocking photographs of the scene, near Battersea Dogs & Cats home in south London, show a smashed up supercar, items of clothing and debris left at the scene.
One person, who was seriously injured, was found on the other side of the two metre railings to the bridge, after smashing through the windscreen of a green Toyota Corolla below.
The Ferrari driver stopped at the scene and has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and was taken to a west London police station, where he remains.
Metropolitan police officers, including a horse unit, London Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service, rushed to Battersea park road, south-west London just before 10.30am.
Witnesses described the "horrible" scenes after the 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale, which costs around £208,000, smashed into people on the pavement.
Zoe Saxby, a bar worker at Flanagans pub, said: "A customer said the car involved was racing with a Range Rover and knocked someone flying off the bridge, and they landed on a car below.
"They actually went flying in the air and could have landed on the railway tracks.
"It also hit a few other people walking on the bridge.
"I didn't see what happened as I'd got to work about ten minutes after it happened but I saw the car with a smashed windscreen.
"The car supposedly was racing and lost control when they hit the pavement.
"We saw the ambulances turn up because people were injured, we got told that it was six people."
Danny Phillips, 55, who lives directly in front of where the crash took place, phoned an ambulance as soon as he heard what had happened.
He said: "I dialled 999 straight away and told them there was a crash, but by that point loads of people were phoning them and there was a huge crowd gathered around outside the green car, so I couldn't even see the injured person.
"I saw a Range Rover stopped but that's gone now, all that's left is the Ferrari.
"It was mayhem, just one big commotion."
Paddy, a retired engineer, believes the force of the impact threw the victim into the air and over the railings head on.
He said: "I spoke to the police and they said they are going to have to go back and look through 22 cameras to find out exactly what happened but the Ferrari was heading west to east down the road and did a u-turn at The Duchess pub.
"There was a Range Rover and a truck stopped at the scene but they've gone now, I don't think they were actually involved, they just happened to be on the scene.
"The windscreen is broken on the left hand side of the Ferrari, the Range Rover had nothing to do with it.
"The Ferrari struck the person at the beginning of the railings and sent them about 40-50 feet in the air and into the windscreen of a car parked down below.
"There had to have been some force for him or her to have gone over the railing and then smash into the window of the car."
A construction worker, who did not want to be named, said: "From what I hear there's a bit of the road where it narrows, and that's where it happened.
"And the Range Rover, maybe they were trying to overtake the Ferrari. Everyone I've spoken to is saying that they were racing.
"I came down here from Nottingham to start construction work but everyone who came with me is stuck outside this cordon. We got up at 4am for this."
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Jim Copeman wrote on Facebook: "So I've just seen a Ferrari plough in to a cyclist and 4 other people on the pavement outside Battersea's dogs and cats home, sending two people flying over the bridge railings and on to the road beneath and you get a**eholes stopping in the middle of the road taking videos and s***. Makes me so angry."
A spokesman for the Met Police said: "We were called to reports of a car in collision with pedestrians in Battersea Park Road.
";Six people have been injured and are being treated at the scene by paramedics. We await an update on their condition but injuries are not thought to be life-threatenning.
"The driver stopped at the scene."
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at 10:28am to reports of a road traffic collision near Kirtling Street at the junction with Battersea Park Road.
“We sent a paramedic on a motorcycle, four ambulance crews, an advanced paramedic and an incident response officer to the scene alongside our hazardous area response team.
"London’s Air Ambulance was also dispatched.
“We treated six patients at the scene and took them to hospital.”
London Ambulance Service sent a paramedic on a motorcycle, four ambulance crews, an advanced paramedic and an incident response officer to the scene alongside our hazardous area response team.
A spokesperson said: "London's Air Ambulance was also dispatched.
"We treated six patients at the scene and took them to hospital.";
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