Three dead as SUV crashes at crowded US car auction

An SUV being shown to prospective buyers at a crowded indoor car auction in the US suddenly accelerated with a screech of its tyres and crashed through a wall, killing three people and injuring nine.

An auction employee in his seventies was behind the wheel of the 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee when it apparently lurched out of control and mowed people down at LynnWay Auto Auction in Billerica, about 32 kilometres (20 miles) north-west of Boston.