London Metropolitan Police have arrested a man after a hit-and-run accident involving a driving instructor’s car was caught on camera last week.
Amateur video shot June 23 in the southern London neighbourhood of Woolwich shows the end of a heated confrontation between two motorists on Woolwich Church St.
The video shows a man in a blue shirt get out of his black Toyota and approach the driving instructor’s vehicle, a Ford Fiesta, slamming his fist on the hood several times.
Suddenly, the driving instructor’s vehicle accelerated, bowling the man over onto the median before driving over him to flee the scene.
“I was so shocked, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Alan Cooke, the man who recorded the incident, told the Evening Standard.
“He was in so much pain, he kept clutching his leg and his head. It was awful.”
Cooke, 34, says he started recording after he saw the man driving the driver’s ed car get out and attempt to strike the Toyota driver through his driver-side window.
“I saw one guy get out of a learner car and star punching the other guy furiously,” Cooke said in a separate interview with The Sun newspaper. “He was proper hitting him and he couldn’t move because he had his seat belt on.”
The victim, 26, is believed to be a mini cab driver but his name and identity have not been released at this time.
“At the time of the incident the injuries were described as a possible broken foot and cuts and bruising,” a spokesperson for London police told the Daily Mail.
London police have arrested a 33-year-old waiter in connection with the case. He’s scheduled to appear in court on July 8.
Police have not said if the man arrested works for a driving school.