Man Arrested After Car Collides With Gates of Downing Street; Police Don’t Suspect Terror Attack

Man Arrested After Car Collides With Gates of Downing Street; Police Don’t Suspect Terror Attack
Police at the scene after a car collided with the gates of Downing Street in London on May 25, 2023. Alastair Grant/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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LONDON—A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and offices are located, setting off a rapid, intense security response at one of London’s most-fortified sites.

No one was injured and police said they were not treating the incident as terror-related. Police arrested a man on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, and local officers, rather than counterterrorism detectives, were handling the investigation.