Five police officers who were injured in a boat crash in central London were responding to a report of a "person in the water", the Metropolitan Police has said. A boat from the force's marine policing unit carrying armed officers crashed into Westminster Bridge on the River Thames at around 3.40pm on Friday. Officers were responding to a report of a person in the water near Battersea, south-west London, when their boat hit the bridge, throwing three of them into the water, the Met said. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementBoats nearby rescued the officers and they were treated at the scene before going to hospital, where four remain with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. I had seen the black boat pass under the bridge and once I heard the sound, I saw that it had crashed."