The man, who is in his late twenties, is refusing to speak to detectives about why he carried out the shocking carborne rush hour attack outside Parliament this morning.
Scotland Yard said today he was not known to their counter-terrorism officers or MI5 but security sources say the suspect, from the Birmingham area, was known to police in the West Midlands.
The vehicle police say he 'deliberately' used as a weapon was registered in Nottingham but written off by insurers late last year before being put back on the road and sold again eight weeks ago.
Today the terror suspect looked dazed as he was dragged from the smoking silver Ford Fiesta by around a dozen armed officers who had their rifles trained on him.
A 'loud bang' followed by screams echoed around Parliament Square at 7.30am this morning and footage uncovered by the BBC shows the car swerve the wrong way down the road and 'intentionally' veer through crowds before smashing into a security barrier.
Two uniformed police officers manning the checkpoint designed to withstand a high speed lorry attack are shown diving away and detectives are investigating if they were the true targets.
Three people were injured and one female cyclist is being treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries in hospital, which MailOnline understands is a broken hip.
Geoffrey Woodman, 27, from Battersea, heard a 'loud screech' and told MailOnline: 'It [the Ford Fiesta] cut out in front of us through the red light on the wrong side of the road. It swerved left and hit the lady two bikes to my left. Its windscreen hit her quite hard. One slight turn of the wheel and it would have taken me out. It was chaos'.
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