Police said a car crashed into the Buckingham Palace gates on Saturday.
Police said a car crashed into the Buckingham Palace gates on Saturday.
  • London police said a car crashed into the gates of Buckingham Palace on Saturday morning.
  • A man was subsequently arrested and sectioned under the UK's Mental Health Act.
  • Footage on social media shows a damaged blue hatchback stopped at the royal property's gates.

An unnamed man was arrested early Saturday morning after a car crashed into the gates of Buckingham Palace, local police said.

The car "collided" with the gates of the royal property around 2:35 a.m. London time, after which officers arrested the man and took him to hospital, the Metropolitan police said.