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Default Stevenage 'car cruise' crash leaves 17 injured

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Seventeen people have been injured after two cars crashed at a "car cruise" gathering and ploughed into spectators.

The vehicles collided on Monkswood Way, Stevenage, at about 21:45 BST on Thursday leaving two seriously injured and 15 more hurt.

One of the charity event's organisers described the "horrific" crash as a "nightmare".

Police have asked witnesses to send footage of the crash to detectives.

Video footage shows one car passing another before the two collide and one strikes people standing at the roadside while the other hits spectators in the central reservation.

The East of England Ambulance Service said some of the people had been seriously hurt.

Hertfordshire Police said it was investigating and no-one had been arrested.

Ch Insp Alicia Shaw said the force had not been aware of the event or the size of the gathering.

She said: "We weren't aware of this event taking place and we weren't aware of such large numbers attending the Stevenage area."

Ch Insp Shaw said officers had attended events in the past and handed out warnings or seized cars when they were being driven in a dangerous manner.

Cruise-Herts planned the event on Thursday where people were due to gather to look at modified cars.

Organiser Rix Sidhu said he had been organising similar meets for 17 years and the latest was held to raise money for charity.

He estimated one of the cars that crashed was travelling at 60 or 70mph and then went into the crowd "at speed".

Mr Sidhu said: "We held the meet in a car park with a speed bump at the entrance. But unfortunately some people went a bit rogue.

"We try and stop that, we urge people...not to go out on the roads, not to risk injury or anything.

"But unfortunately, in this age of social media and Snapchat, people want to get footage and post things to their friends, which seems to drive some people to the main road."

In a statement on Facebook he said they would not be organising any more such events.

He also said the police were aware that the group met every Thursday evening, having attended in the past, and said the two drivers involved in the crash were "not regulars".
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...herts-49041165
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