Liverpool parade collision: Man detained after car strikes pedestrians, injuring more than 40 people

More than 40 people, including four children, were injured after a car poured against pedestrians during the Premier League parade of Liverpool FC in the English city of Liverpool on Monday. A 53-year-old white British man has been held, the police said, According to Sky News.

According to the North West Ambulance Service, 27 people were brought to four hospitals in the area, two with serious injury. In addition, 20 others were treated on the spot for minor injuries. Of the four children among the injured people, they had serious injury.

Numerous emergency vehicles reported on stage around 6 pm, although the area was cleared around 10.30 pm, For Sky News.

Fans went on the streets of the Port City to celebrate the team Incredibly dominant run to the Premier League titleThat the team on Sunday in their home stadium, Anfield, celebrated for the planned parade on Monday. The Parade started around 2.30 pm local time and was expected to take about four hours, And an estimated hundreds of thousands of people gathered in a radius of 10 miles. Liverpool is more than 200 miles northwest of London.

“We are currently dealing with reports from an RTC (Traffic Scrash) in the city center of Liverpool. Today, Mon May 26, we were contacted with a car, a car was collided with a number of pedestrians on Water Street. The car stopped on scene and a man,” ” Read a statement from the MerseSide police on X.

North West Ambulance Service also confirmed that the organization supported other First Responders on site.

“NWAS supports an incident in the center of Liverpool, after reports of a traffic collision,” they wrote in a statement. “We are currently judging the situation and work together with other members of the emergency services. Our priority is to ensure that people get the medical help they need as quickly as possible.”

The investigation is currently led by the Merseyside police with the help of other emergency teams in the area, including Counter Terrorism Policing North West, per PA media.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that “the scenes in Liverpool are terrible – my thoughts are with all those wounded or affected,” ” According to the Liverpool Echo.

Liverpool FC said that the club is in contact with the Merseyside police about the incident.

“We have direct contact with the Merseyside police with regard to the incident in Water Street, which took place earlier tonight towards the end of the trophy parade,” the club wrote in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this serious incident. We will continue to offer our full support to the emergency services and local authorities that have to do with this incident.”