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999 police car hits pedestrian

CHRISTMAS shoppers were horrified yesterday lunchtime (Wednesday) when a police car responding to a 999 call hit a pedestrian.
Police had not named the man, who is 48 and a relation of the manager of newsagent Camden Metro, at the time of going to press last night (Wednesday). He was hit in Camden High Street, smashing the windscreen of the police car.
Eyewitnesses said he had stepped out from behind either a green dust cart or a bus parked on the west side of the road, almost opposite the newsagent, and tried to run across before the police car passed.
There were three police officers in the car and the driver of the car has now been relieved of duty pending an investigation. None of the officers were injured.
A police statement said that they believed the injuries were not life threatening and he was in a stable condition.
A builder working on the site who saw the accident said: “The police car was travelling fast and its sirens were going. The man stepped out from behind a green dust cart (parked on the north side of the road) and the car hit him. He went into the windscreen and he flew about three metres up into the air and he landed beneath a Volkswagen which was parked.”

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