An eyewitness captured footage on Saturday (October 3) of emergency crews heading towards the scene after a car drove into a crowd in the Australian city of Newcastle.

Reuters was able to confirm the location and date of the footage from metadata in the original file. Traffic lights, signboards and the road layout also matched archive imagery of the area.

The driver was arrested at the scene in Newcastle, about 110 km (68 miles) north of the New South Wales state capital, Sydney.

Police said the car had been driven into a crowd, injuring 10 people, adding that initial indications suggested the incident was not terrorism-related.

Fans had lined local streets to farewell the Newcastle Knights rugby league team, due to compete in the country's National Rugby League grand final in Sydney on Sunday, when the incident occurred.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

WALLSEND, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA (OCTOBER 3, 2026) (KAI PRESTON - No resales / No archive / Must on-screen courtesy KAI PRESTON)

1. PEOPLE GATHERED ON SIDE OF ROAD (SOME WEARING NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS RUGBY LEAGUE CLOTHING), POLICE VEHICLE STOPPED ON ROAD AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES WITH SIRENS BLARING AND LIGHTS FLASHING PASSING BY, UNIDENTIFIED PERSON HEARD SAYING (English): “This is not good. Someone will die. Someone got hit further out, that’s what it was (where) the ambulances were.”

2. HELICOPTER FLYING IN SKY

3. (ORIGINALLY FILMED IN PORTRAIT) EMERGENCY VEHICLE WITH SIRENS BLARING AND LIGHTS FLASHING, PASSING BY