Driver Crashes Car Into Security Barriers At U.K. Parliament; 3 Injured

Police stand in the street after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, Britain, on Tuesday

Hannah Mckay / Reuters

Updated at 6:45 a.m. ET

A driver crashed a vehicle into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament in London during the Tuesday morning commute, injuring three people, police and medical personnel say.

Police officers arrested the driver on “suspicion of terrorist offenses,” the Metropolitan Police says. The agency describes the suspect as a 29-year-old man who is a U.K. national. He was at the wheel of a silver Ford Fiesta when it crashed through a stream of cyclists and pedestrians and hit a metal barrier that stopped the Fiesta and left its hood crumpled.