A British journalist employed by the London-based Financial Times was arrested over an alleged hit-and-run incident in Tokyo's Nagata-cho district early Wednesday, police said.

David George Ibison, 35, a resident of Suginami Ward, is suspected of hitting a 32-year-old male company employee from Chiba with his car, causing him to suffer a serious leg injury, and driving off.

After being apprehended the same day, Ibison reportedly told police that he was aware he had hit something, but did not think it was a person. Ibison covers Japan's auto industry and financial markets for the U.K. daily.