A man is in hospital with serious head injuries today after his car was rammed by suspected drug dealers fleeing police at high speed.
The suspects’ Mini Cooper careered across Englefield Road, in the De Beauvoir conservation area of Hackney, hitting two cars before ploughing into a signpost.
Emergency services staff cut the roof from the 62-year-old driver’s white hatchback before lifting him out on to a stretcher. He is being treated at the Royal London Hospital.
Police arrested two men in their mid-twenties on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and dangerous driving.
A Met police spokesman said: “A man in one of the struck cars was taken to hospital with suspected head injuries. The driver of the second car was uninjured. A quantity of class A drugs were seized from the vehicle.”
A witness said: “They smashed into the signpost and tried to reverse, but the cops pulled them out of the car. There was a struggle before they were pinned to the ground.”
