Footage released by the BBC shows the moment when the car then crosses over a traffic island in the middle of the road before crashing into the security barriers. A police officer can be seen jumping over another barrier to get out of the way.<doc-sep>Part of Parliament Square could be pedestrianised in the wake of the latest suspected Westminster terror attack, Britain's most senior police officer has said. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said the move to ban vehicles from the road in front of the Houses of Parliament could be made in a bid to prevent further vehicle attacks - terrorists' "weapon of choice". A 29-year-old UK national - named as Salih Khater, a former Sudanese migrant - remains in police custody following his arrest on suspicion of preparing an act of terror after crashing a silver Ford Fiesta. Police revealed on Wednesday that he has been further arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Addresses in the Midlands have been searched as police investigate the crash outside the Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday morning. The Fiesta was driven from Birmingham to London late on Monday, spent almost five hours in the Tottenham Court Road area and was then driven around the Westminster area for more than 90 minutes, before it crashed into a security barrier just before 7.40am.<doc-sep>BIRMINGHAM, England/LONDON (Reuters) - A man detained on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack outside Britain’s parliament is Salih Khater, a British citizen of Sudanese origin, a European security source told Reuters on Wednesday. Police believe a car was deliberately driven into pedestrians and cyclists, injuring three people, before ramming a security barrier outside parliament on Tuesday morning. The 29-year-old driver was arrested by armed officers at the scene moments later. He is currently being questioned on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism and on Wednesday was further arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, although police have said he is not co-operating with detectives. On Wednesday police said that they had obtained a warrant to detain him for longer before deciding whether to charge him. The security source told Reuters that Khater was from Birmingham, central England, and was not known to security services before Tuesday. Nassar Mahmood, a trustee at Birmingham Central Mosque, said that he had spoken to members of the local Sudanese community, and understood that Khater had gone to London for visa reasons and had paperwork with him. “He was actually trying to apply for a visa, through the Sudanese embassy, to go back to Sudan,” he told reporters. Mahmood said he had heard that Khater did not worship at the mosque and had not shown signs of radicalization. A spokesman for Coventry University, also in central England, told the Daily Telegraph newspaper Khater had studied accountancy from September 2017 until May 2018 but failed his first year course and lost his place. Slideshow ( 14 images ) On Wednesday, London police confirmed that they were satisfied they knew the identity of the arrested man, saying he was originally from Sudan although they did not name him. In a statement, police said officers were still searching one address in the city of Birmingham but had concluded their investigations at two other properties in Birmingham and Nottingham, also in central England. “The priority of the investigation team continues to be to understand the motivation behind this incident,” the statement said. Speaking shortly after the incident, Britain’s counter-terrorism police chief said that given the iconic location and the method used, it appeared the incident was “a deliberate act” and was therefore being treated as a terrorist incident. Video footage showed the car veering across the road and into a security lane leading to parliament before smashing into the barrier. No one else was in the vehicle at the time and no weapons have been found. The car involved, a silver Ford Fiesta, has been removed and the security lane was open as usual. The Fiesta was driven down to the British capital from Birmingham on Monday night and was then in the Tottenham Court Road area, near central London’s main shopping district, for about four hours, police said. At about 0500 GMT it headed to the Westminster and Whitehall area where parliament and most central government departments are located before the incident occurred at 0637 GMT. Slideshow ( 14 images ) PEDESTRIANIZING PARLIAMENT Police said the incident appeared to be the second terrorist attack at the parliament building in just under 18 months, after a British-born Muslim convert killed four people on nearby Westminster Bridge in March 2017. He also stabbed to death an unarmed police officer in the grounds of parliament before being shot dead. That was the first of five attacks in Britain last year that police designated as terrorism, three of which used vehicles as weapons. The latest attack has prompted a debate about banning traffic from the square and making it a pedestrian area, an option favored by London Mayor Sadiq Khan. “I’ve been an advocate for a while now of part-pedestrianizing Parliament Square, but making sure we don’t lose the wonderful thing about our democracy which is people having access to parliamentarians, people being able to lobby parliament, and visitors being able to come and visit parliament,” he told BBC radio. London police chief Cressida Dick said they would discuss the idea with Khan, parliament’s authorities and the intelligence agencies. “As with anything, there is a balance to be drawn. Vehicles are on our streets all the time. We have crowds on our streets as well. The terrorists want us to completely change our way of life,” she told LBC radio. “We’re not going to just change our lifestyle but it is important that we take reasonable measures, as I think we have been doing over the last several months to try to make sure that the most iconic sites, including those in central London, are well protected.”<doc-sep>
A 29-year-old man detained over a suspected terrorist attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London has been further arrested for attempted murder, police said. He had initially been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after he appeared deliberately to drive his car at cyclists and pedestrians before ramming it into barriers outside the parliament building yesterday morning. Police confirmed media reports that the man is a UK national originally from Sudan. He has been named by a security source as Salih Khater. "We are satisfied that we know the identity of the arrested man," police said in a statement. "The priority of the investigation team continues to be to understand the motivation behind this incident." Mr Khater is thought to have lived in a first-floor flat in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, until he moved out around four months ago. Residents who knew Mr Khater described him as a quiet man who frequently visited a shisha lounge and internet cafe on the city's Stratford Road. Police have visited the Bunna internet cafe, and are believed to be reviewing CCTV footage from the local area. The silver Ford Fiesta used in the attack was driven from Birmingham to London late on Monday and spent almost five hours in the Tottenham Court Road area. It was then driven around the Westminster area for more than 90 minutes before it crashed into a security barrier just before 7.40am yesterday. Counter-terrorism officers have since conducted searches at two addresses in Birmingham and a residential property in Nottingham as part of the probe. The suspect, who was said to not be co-operating with officers, was not known to security services, Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism head Neil Basu said. He said the apparent deliberate nature of the act, the method used and the "iconic" location of Parliament led the force to treat it as a terrorist incident. Three people sustained non-life-threatening injuries. One man was treated at the scene while another man and a woman were taken to hospital but were discharged by yesterday evening. Mr Khater was previously an accountancy student at Coventry University. A spokesman for the university said: "Salih Khater studied accountancy at Coventry University between September 2017 and May 2018. "As of May 2018 he is no longer enrolled at the university." After a meeting of the British government's emergency Cobra committee yesterday, Prime Minister Theresa May urged the country to come together and carry on as normal. In a statement, Mrs May, who is on holiday, praised the "formidable courage" and professionalism of the emergency services who "ran towards" danger.