A man had to be pulled out of a wrecked Bentley after it smashed into the railings of an east London tube station.
The dazed driver was pulled from the luxury car after it got wedged into railings leading to Newbury Park station in Ilford.
Bystanders arriving at the crash found a man sitting in the car with the air-bags deployed and the windscreen wipers still going.
A man was detained at the scene by an off-duty police officer.
One onlooker said ‘that is bad’ as oil can be seen leaking down the pedestrian pathway in Stainforth Road.
Police responded with paramedics to take a man, in his 20s, to hospital at 3.40pm on Saturday.
A Met spokesman said: ‘He has since been discharged and arrested on suspicion of driving without insurance, driving without a valid licence and dangerous driving.
‘He has since been released under investigation while enquiries continue.’
The collision came the day after tributes flooded into three teenagers killed in a crash in the Scottish Highlands.
Fergus Ward, Lewis Knox and Jordan Cameron have been named locally as the trio killed on the A830 south of Arisaig at around 11.15pm on Thursday.
All three were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash involving a white Ford Fiesta.
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Fergus’s mum wrote on social media, ‘fly high my sweet boy’ after changing her profile picture to an image of him.
