Distressing footage showing the aftermath of a car crash which left seven people injured has emerged as police continue to question the driver. 

Two people can be seen lying in the street in the footage taken after a car reportedly mounted a pavement and mowed down revellers in Derby on Saturday night. 

Another man who appears to be dazed can be seen sitting in the road as blue lights flash around. 

In a statement on Monday morning, Derbyshire police said it had been granted more time to question the driver, a 36 year old man from India who was arrested a mile from the scene seven minutes after the crash. 

Counter terrorism officers are assisting with the investigation.

Police have said they are keeping an open mind about the motive. 

The 36-year-who is originally from India but has lived in the city for several years, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, causing serious injury through dangerous driving, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and dangerous driving,

Seven people were treated at the scene and taken to hospital with a range of serious but not life-threatening injuries, after they were hit by a black Suzuki Swift in Friar Gate at about 9.30pm on Saturday.

Two have since been discharged from hospital. 

Dharma Mundell, 26, who works at a newsagents metres away from where the incident happened, said people were smoking on the pavement outside the Bishop Blaise pub before the driver ‘sped up’ and hit them.

She told how she was serving a customer when she heard a loud bang followed by people screaming and crying. 

‘I was in pure shock I guess, because I heard banging and screaming and then I came out (of the shop) and there’s ambulances and police everywhere. It was a big shock,’ she said. 

‘There was an ambulance that pulled up just outside my shop and a lady got put in a stretcher.

‘(She had a) full neck brace, and I’ve seen a bunch of blood dripping down her head.

‘It was kind of scary. It was not something you expect here in at all.

‘This guy literally just sped up the road, straight onto the curb, straight through people.

‘He literally just ploughed through the people. I’ve just seen a bunch of people on the road and he’s ploughed through them.

‘When I heard screaming I thought maybe one person was fighting, and then you see seven or eight people on the ground.’ 

Calum Green, assistant manager at Bishop Blaise, was working when the incident happened outside the bar. He said ambulance sirens alerted him to the crash. 

He said the car had come ‘right onto the pavement’ where a group of people were standing.

‘He mounted the kerb once. We closed the doors and kept everyone inside as we didn’t know what happened,’ he said.

Nadine Peatfield, leader of Derby City Council, described the crash as ‘horrific’. 

She said Friar Gate would be closed to cars this Easter bank holiday weekend after the incident. 

‘We want people to feel reassured that they can continue to come out,’ she said. 

‘My heart goes out to everybody that’s been injured in this incident and everyone that’s witnessed it, of course, their friends and loved ones. It’s just horrific. 

‘As an immediate reassurance to people in our city, we will ensure that over the bank holiday weekend no vehicles will be able to come down Friar Gate in those evenings when people are out celebrating.’

Claire Ward, mayor of the East Midlands, said it was a ‘serious but isolated incident’. 

‘I know that for those not just involved who were injured on the evening, but who were around the city centre and had first-hand experience of what happened, this will be a really frightening time,’ she said. 

‘The city itself, and all our agencies, will want to do all it can to support people at this difficult time.

‘We know the repercussions of violent acts like this don’t end just in that moment.

‘There will be real upset and trauma for many people who witnessed what happened on the night as well, of course, as those victims who were directly impacted, but we understand that there were no fatalities and that two people have already been discharged from hospital and more we hope, soon.’ 

Baggy Shanker, Labour MP for Derby South, said: ‘It’s deeply shocking to learn that something like this could happen here at home.

‘I really, really want to understand what has caused this before we jump to any conclusions.’

Mr Shanker said he was ‘absolutely’ concerned that counter-terrorism officers have been involved in the investigation, adding: ‘The police have reassured us… that is a routine precaution in an investigation like this.’

He continued: ‘Hopefully, collectively working with Derbyshire Constabulary, they’ll conclude their investigations and make charges appropriately pretty soon.’

The manager of The Spice Lounge, an Indian restaurant opposite where the crash happened, said two people who were walking along the pavement were hit by the car when it mounted the pavement and ‘swerved into them’ from behind. 

CCTV from his restaurant showed one person was knocked into the road, while another fell onto the pavement. 

He said: ‘I was just heartbroken and shocked. I think one of them had a lot of blood.’ 

The vehicle then continued forward he said, ‘but the way the car was going, it was swerving to hit someone else’.