Christmas market crowd sent scrambling after driver plows car into pedestrian area: UK police say

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Three suspects were arrested Saturday arrested after a car allegedly plowed into a crowd of holiday shoppers at a Christmas market in a small town south of Manchester, England. 

Hundreds of people were enjoying the Christmas market in the town center of Congleton, England, when a driver in a Volkswagen Golf going around 50 mph drove into the crowd on a pedestrian-only street around 4 p.m., according to local paper the Stoke Sentinel. 

"Fortunately, no-one was hurt during the incident," Cheshire Police said in a statement. 

A witness called the incident "absolutely horrendous."

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"A car has come screeching down the High Street - which is full of stalls and people," Steve Brown, who owns an antique store near where the car crashed into the crowd, told the Sentinel. "There are hundreds of people here, people with kids and dogs and lots of traders.

The car allegedly plowed into a pedestrain-only area of Congleton, England.  (Google Maps)

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Police said the car was found abandoned and three men were in custody in connection to the incident. 

"There was a woman and a kid, they were a bit shaken up," Mandy Neville, who was working at a shop near the market when the incident happened, told the paper. "The woman said that she’d hurt her leg. She didn’t know if something had hit her on the leg as the car came crashing through, but no one was actually injured properly."

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She added, "We brought the lad in here and gave him a drink. He was quite shook-up. He was only a young lad, I think he was about 10."