Man charged with attempted murder after car hits five pedestrians in Arnold

A red Vauxhall Astra mounted a kerb in Arnold’s Market Place and struck a group of pedestrians, leaving five men injured in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Nottinghamshire Police said the incident happened at 1.12am on Saturday 9 May 2026, in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, after an apparent altercation in the town centre a short time earlier. One man suffered life-threatening injuries and remained in hospital, while four other men were treated for less serious injuries.

Police arrested a 40-year-old man later that same day as detectives began piecing together the sequence of events in the busy town-centre setting. Duane Anthony was charged on Monday 11 May 2026 with five counts of attempted murder and is due to appear before magistrates.

Investigators have said Counter Terrorism Police have not been involved, underscoring that the case is being treated as a violent incident rather than a terrorism matter. The charge of attempted murder points to allegations that go well beyond a traffic collision, and the case now turns on what happened before the car reached Market Place and what role, if any, the earlier confrontation played in the attack.

The scene has raised wider public-safety questions about crowded nightlife areas where pedestrian traffic, late-night drinking and flashpoint disputes can collide in seconds. In places like Arnold’s town centre, a single vehicle can turn an ordinary street into a mass-casualty scene, leaving residents, businesses and police to confront how quickly violence can spread once a confrontation moves from the pavement to the road.