Armed cops arrested the man, aged in his late 20s, after three people were left injured following the suspected terror attack at 7.40am.
The Westminster terror suspect who ploughed into at least 15 cyclists and pedestrians appears to have travelled to London from his Midlands home in a Ford Fiesta bought just two months ago.
The 29-year-old suspect, is refusing to speak to police. His identity has not been revealed and it is believed he was not known to Scotland Yard or MI5 before the shocking vehicular rush hour attack. However, security sources have suggested he may be known to police back home in the Midlands and his car was first registered in Nottingham.
The vehicle police say he ‘deliberately’ used as a weapon was was written off by insurers in the Autumn of last year but put back on the road and sold again eight weeks ago.
Today the terror suspect looked dazed as he was dragged from the smoking silver Ford Fiesta by around a dozen armed officers who had their rifles trained on him.
The horrifying moment the driver sped through crowds at up to 50mph before ploughing into barriers outside the Houses of Parliament was caught on CCTV.
A ‘loud bang’ followed by screams echoed around Parliament Square at 7.30am this morning and footage shows the car swerve the wrong way down the road and ‘intentionally’ veer through crowds before smashing into a security barrier.

car was stopped in its tracks by a new security barrier.jpgThe car uesd in the early morning attack was stopped in its tracks by a new security barrier designed to stop even attacks executed with a lorry

Two uniformed police officers manning the checkpoint designed to withstand a high speed lorry attack are shown diving away and detectives are investigating if they were the true targets of the suspected terror attack.
Three people were injured and one female cyclist is being treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries in hospital, for a broken hip.
One witness, Geoffrey Woodman, 27, from Battersea, described hearing a ‘loud screech’: ‘It [the Ford Fiesta] cut out in front of us through the red light on the wrong side of the road. It swerved left and hit the lady two bikes to my left. Its windscreen hit her quite hard. One slight turn of the wheel and it would have taken me out. It was chaos’.

officers inspect the car that crashed into security barriers 1.JPGForensic officers inspect the car that crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament today and continued until it was was stopped in its tracks by a new security barrier designed to stop an attack executed with a lorry 
Armed officers swamp a crumpled silver car.JPGArmed security agents swamp a crumpled silver car after a rush hour crash at Westminster Tuesday that left two pedestrians needing hospital treatment
Security agents arrest man after car 'hit cyclists' in Westminster.JPGThe suspect, a male in his late twenties [left], of the picture was arrested at the scene where two people were injured at just after 7.30 am today and he is refusing to speak to detectives
 CCTV footage shows the car on the wrong side of the road then swerve left, hitting cyclists 1.JPGAriel footage shows emergency services outside Westminster: CCTV footage shows the car on the wrong side of the road then swerve left, hitting cyclists and pedestrians before hitting a barrier
Bicycles are sat against a wall near the scene of the crash at the Houses of Parliament.JPGBicycles are sat against a wall near the scene of the crash at the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, today
The the location of th e barrier crash – just around the corner from where Khalid Masood killed six people in March 2017.

Scotland Yard said the crash is being treated as a ‘terrorist incident’ and counter-terror chief Neil Basu said the suspect was not known to police or MI5.
The suspected terrorist arrested at gunpoint after ploughing a car into pedestrians near parliament is refusing to talk to police as detectives try to identify him, the Met’s terror chief said today.

Police chief, Neil Basu, says terror suspect won’t speak to investigators

Neil Basu, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations, said the man, in his 20s, is ‘not currently cooperating’ after his arrest shortly after 7.30am.

A woman remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition after the suspected attacker drove a silver Ford Fiesta into cyclists before crashing into security barrier.
Police are treating the incident as a ‘deliberate’ terrorist incident.
It is not yet known whether the suspected attacker was on the radar of security services.
Speaking outside New Scotland Yard, Mr Basu said: ‘At 7.37am a silver Ford Fiesta was involved in a collision at the front of the Houses of Parliament.
‘That vehicle collided cyclists and pedestrians before it hit the barrier and came to a stop.
‘Two people have been taken to hospital, one man has already been discharged and a woman has serious but non life threatening injuries.
‘Another man was also treated at the scene but didn’t require hospital treatment.’
Mr Basu said the suspect was the only person in the vehicle and was ‘arrested at the scene by armed officers’ and taken to a police station in south London.
Mr Basu added: ‘This appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this iconic site, we’re treating it as a terrorist incident.
‘Officers are searching the vehicle but no other weapons have been found at this time.’
He said no other suspects were identified or reported, adding: ‘There’s no intelligence at this time of further danger to Londoners or the rest of the U.K.’
He said: ‘The priority is to formally establish the ID and his motives. He is not currently cooperating.’

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Forensics officers work beside the car that crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament today
First responders reat injured victimms at the scene 1.JPGFirst responders treat victims lying in the road on Parliament Square in an attack that did not claim any lives – Paramedics treat cyclists in Westminster after car crash
Police cordon off the crash scene 1.JPGOnlookers stand outside a widespread  security cordon, which is only used in the event of terror attacks has been put in place spreading for a mile radius from Parliament Square
Police are now carrying out ‘various other urgent inquiries’ and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.

Mr Basu said: ‘Clearly we are treating the scene and parliament square as a crime scene so cordons are likely to be in place for some time.
‘This has caused a great deal of disruption to those who live, work or were visiting this area.’
Asked whether police were tailing the man before the incident, he said: ‘There was not a police car in pursuit of the vehicle.’

Mr Basu also said that he appears to have been working alone and there is ‘no intelligence at this time of further danger’ to Londoners following the Westminster car attack.
He said: ‘It appears to be a deliberate act. We are treating it as a terrorist incident. The man is in his late 20s and he’s been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences and has been taken to a South London police station where he remains in custody.
‘Our priority now is to formally establish the identity of the suspect and establish his motivation if we can. He is not currently co-operating’.
Parliament is closed today but most MPs are away because it is during the summer recess, and a huge ‘Terror cordon’ stretching nearly a mile around Parliament Square is in place.
Today’s crash came 17 months after Khalid Masood drove into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge – killing five – before stabbing to death PC Keith Palmer at the gates of Parliament.
Ewalina Ochab saw the incident and said: ‘I think it looked intentional – the car drove at speed and towards the barriers’, while Jason Williams said: ‘I saw at least 10 people lying down. I had to run for my life’, and Barry Williams said: ‘One of the cyclists jumped up and ran after the driver’.
The moment the suspect was arrested was caught on camera and witness, Donovan, told LBC: ‘Six four-by-fours shot past us and armed police jumped out and over the barrier. They were just dragging him out, but they were pointing guns in the car’.
Specialist officers and sniffer dogs ‘sanitised’ the scene – a term used when checking for a bomb or dangerous chemicals.
Witnesses said officers initially stood back and said it seemed as if they were concerned that the car may have contained a bomb.

Police helicopter hovered over Parliament for several hours after.JPGPolice helicopter joined in the search for possible accomplices, hovering over Parliament for several hours as officers tried to establish if the suspect was working alone

Witness Jason Williams told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that the incident was ‘very, very scary’, adding that he was feeling ‘very anxious’.

He said: ‘Basically I’ve seen a man driving a vehicle, and he’s gone into one of the bollards. There was a loud bang.
‘Straight away I thought ‘Oh no, this is another terrorist attack’. So I’ve just started to run and the police were saying ‘get out, get out of the area’.
‘It looked deliberate. It didn’t look like an accident. How do you do that by accident? It was a loud bang.
‘I was very surprised (the police didn’t go in straight away). They seemed to be standing back. They were obviously a bit wary, like what’s going to happen next?
‘I don’t know if it was a tip-off, a warning, that this was a bomb. There seems to be maybe about 200 police here now, and it’s all happened very quickly in the space of half an hour.
‘I have seen people on the ground, lying on the road. I don’t know if they have actually been hit by the vehicle or not. I saw at least 10 people lying down. I had to run for my life.’
Bus driver Victor Ogbomo, 49, was driving passengers past the front of Westminster when he saw the crash.
He said: ‘All I saw was the smoke coming out of a vehicle, a silver vehicle … I just stopped the bus.
‘The police said we have to move back, then in less than five minutes the response team came. They went to the vehicle, so we had to push back. I saw the car in the barrier’.

Police patrol Westminster after the crash.JPGArmed officers were among the hundreds of police who flooded into the Westminster area in the aftermath
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 Scotland Yard put out this statement this morning confirming an incident, a couple of hours later, they pointed out that they were keeping ‘open mind’ by counter-terror police took over the case
Westminster Bridge closd by cops 1.JPGAuthorities have closed off Westminster Bridge [photo] and all major roads leading to Parliament Square in the aftermath of the crash
Security agents lead a man is led away from the silver car.jpgSecurity agents lead a man away from the car after the crash

Security measures around Westminster and on central London bridges were beefed up in the wake of terror attacks last year.
Within days of the atrocity at London Bridge and Borough Market in June 2017, barriers were put in place on bridges including Westminster, Waterloo and Lambeth in a bid to stop terrorists mowing down pedestrians.
Tactics for armed officers were also changed, with marksmen allowed to shoot at a vehicle being used in such an attack.
Previously, firearms officers had the option of shooting at a moving car, van or lorry, but this was discouraged as it was felt it could increase the risk to the public.
But the approach was revised so that firing at a car, van or lorry when it is on the move is an accepted tactic for such incidents.
There are also more armed patrols on the streets at any one time, with the number of firearms officers and vehicles having gradually increased since 2016.
A £143 million plan to boost armed policing was announced in the months after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015, in which 130 people died and hundreds more were injured.
Security arrangements around Parliament are likely to come under fresh scrutiny at the forthcoming inquests into the deaths of five people including police officer Keith Palmer who were killed in the Westminster Bridge attack last year.
Khalid Masood ploughed a hired SUV into pedestrians on the bridge before getting out and fatally stabbing Mr Palmer, who was guarding the Palace of Westminster but was unarmed.
Around a month later, former Taliban bomb maker Khalid Ali was arrested in Parliament Square with three knives ready to attack MPs and police.
He was later jailed for at least 40 years for making the explosive devices and 25 years for the knife plot..