There hasn't been much charter about today's incident, the police seem pretty certain it was terror-related and the video clip would certainly suggest it wasn't an accident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45189831Now, watching the clip a few times I spotted something quite odd. As the car approaches at the start of the video there is an ambulance on flashing lights passing it. Pure coincidence, nothing too curious there.
But watch how two other vans/cars cut across a truck and then follow the assailant down the cycle lane. They appear to have flashing lights also, I suspect they are police cars as they rushed to the scene.
I could understand them being coincidentally in the area, but they seem to act before the assailant has done anything.
I can't think of an explanation. It's just curious.
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Maybe it's not far fetched to have police vehicles patrolling round there, so not as big a coincidence as I first thought. And their reactions were swift, but quite understandable given the history of these things.
Any research that the driver did ought to have made it obvious that the second security barrier would be impassable without some form of pass. Driving a regular motor car of monocoque construction into the unretracted bollards could only end in the crumpling of the car. This deed only makes sense if the car had an explosive device onboard. Even if it did, what would be the point of causing an explosion at the palace if Parliament is on recess?
Conclusion: the perp is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
The car could have gone where it ended up by simply staying in the left lane of the road it was on.
Instead, to me it looked like this: it joined the 2 lanes turning right, and was suddenly overtaken by an ambulance, after which it started to move into the right lane, then suddenly swerved left to avoid the ambulance (or bounced off it), then hit the cyclists/pedestrians., and carried on over into the road. Then, it carried on and crashed.
If it was an accident, I have no idea what the driver was thinking then. Blind panic? Accidentally doing a hit and run and trying to get away? I know someone whose brother was killed that way recently, this happens.
There's no way anyone intending harm would have crashed into that barrier, and he could have done it by carrying on in the lane he started in, so I think it's an accident followed by a panic.
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The only people who have any business taking the access route towards the Palace are those with prior security clearance. Anyone else attempting this is either a comedian or up to no good.
In my opinion, it is probably acceptable to mount a pavement in an attempt to give way to an ambulance involved in an emergency. It is not necessary to continue driving along the pavement.
The intent is clearly to avoid the first barrier and, presumably, hope to catch the second barrier *unawares*, so to speak. This cannot possibly work. The default position on the safety barrier is SAFE.
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So if you perform a terror attack, it typically has a message behind it, you are trying to achieve something by doing it. So what was his message? We don't really know because he isn't telling anyone. So it definitely seems more of a "spur of the moment" thing rather than something that he has spent a long time organising. Or, he is just a bit thick..
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