E-scooter and officer collide near Buckingham Palace

An e-scooter rider and a police officer were taken to a major trauma centre after a collision outside Buckingham Palace.

The BBC saw medical bags, a discarded police hat and a black e-scooter strewn across the road outside the palace’s gates in the aftermath of the crash on Friday.

The incident took place at 16:00 BST at the bottom of Constitution Hill, the length of which was cordoned off by police for hours.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We sent an ambulance crew, incident response officer and dispatched London Air Ambulance via car to the scene. We treated two males at the scene and took them to a major trauma centre as a priority.”

The Met Police confirmed it was called to “a collision with a police officer who was on foot at the eastern end of Constitution Hill next to Buckingham Palace”.

A spokesperson said: “Both the rider of the e-scooter and the police officer were taken to hospital. Their injuries were assessed as non-life threatening and non-life changing.

“The scene of the incident was cordoned off while the level of injuries was confirmed.”

Officers were seen patrolling the cordon and shouted at several cyclists who at one point attempted to pass through a cycle lane within the cordon.

“Get out, you’re in a crime scene,” an officer was heard shouting at the cyclist.

The palace was not flying the Royal Standard, suggesting King Charles was not present at the time of the collision.

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