How 82 seconds of hell started with a WhatsApp message

Francisco Lopes, 26, from Portugal, suffered leg and hand injuries when he was hit by the car. He said: "He started to move towards the pavement and started to just take out the people that were in front of the car, so, when I realised this, the car was literally just about one metre away, so I had no time to get out of the way." Around 100 yards further along the bridge, Ajao's speeding car closed in on Romanian architect Andreea Cristea and her fiance Andrei Burnaz. Mr Burnaz's foot was crushed by the car and his 29-year-old girlfriend was badly injured as the vehicle forced her over the side of the bridge into the River Thames 30ft below. Mr Burnaz screamed down to boats below for someone to save her, and as Miss Cristea bobbed to the surface, face down and apparently unconscious, the captain of a pleasure boat tried to pull her onboard with a boat hook after she passed under the bridge.