LONDON – A car plowed into pedestrians and cyclists near the Houses of Parliament in London during the morning rush hour Tuesday, injuring three people in what ****** suspect is the latest in a string of vehicle-based ******* in the British capital.

***** ****** flooded the area after the ******** was reported at 7:37 a.m., hauling the driver from the vehicle, arresting him and cordoning off streets surrounding the heart of *******’s government. The nearby Westminster subway station was closed, and ****** asked people to stay away from the area.

“Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a ********* ********,” Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu of the Metropolitan ****** Service told reporters outside Scotland Yard.

A man in his late 20s was arrested on suspicion of ********* offences. The suspect was not co-operating with ******, and officers were trying to confirm his identity, said Basu, who oversees U.K. counterterrorism policing. No other suspects have been identified and ****** believe there is no further ****** to Londoners, he said.

Eyewitnesses said the silver car was travelling at high speed when it hit pedestrians and cyclists, then crashed into a barrier designed to protect Parliament from vehicle ******. Two people were taken to local hospitals and another was treated at the scene. One woman remained hospitalized Tuesday afternoon, but her ******** aren’t believed to be life threatening, authorities said.

“The car drove at speed into the barriers outside the House of Lords. There was a loud bang from the ********* and a bit of *****,” Ewelina Ochab told The Associated Press. “The driver did not get out. The guards started screaming to people to move away.”

Jason Williams also saw a car moving at high speed.

“It didn’t look like an ********,” he said. “How do you do that by ********?”

Donovan Parsons, a cameraman for ITV’s “Good Morning *******,” was filming outside Parliament when he heard a loud *****.

“I saw the car ***** into the barrier outside Westminster Palace, with ***** coming out of the vehicle. ****** were around it, telling people to get back. … They dragged someone out of the car.”

The same area was the site of an ****** in March 2017, when Khalid Masood ploughed a car into crowds on Westminster Bridge, ******* four people. Masood abandoned his car and then stabbed and ****** a ****** officer before being shot **** in a courtyard outside Parliament.

Less than three months later, a van rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge before three men abandoned the vehicle and attacked weekend revelers in the nearby Borough Market. Eight people were ****** and 48 ******* in the ******.

On June 19, 2017, a man drove a van into a crowd of worshippers leaving a mosque in north London, ******* one man and injuring eight others.