Incident at Liverpool Title Parade May 26th

[balotellishaircut]

Think you mean fatalities definitely casualties

Yeah true, thanks for correcting me.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Angry society gets angrier. Angry mob, angry driver, angry social media. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Bantamgaz]

Seriously what a fooked up world we sadly all live in :(

 

[jrb]

Another video from earlier on shows the car driving normally through the crowds who are standing back. At that point there is nothing sinister going on.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Strange how all the City celebrations down the years have been largely incident free..

Thankfully, no major incidents that I'm aware of.
But our daughter and friends (with kids) nearly got caught up in a bad crushing when we won the Quad.
Some idiot allowed the trams to continue working during the parade - which was re-routed from it's originally posted route.
There was serious panic in front of the Central Library.
Also because of the re-route, people were trying to "find" the new route with security and police blocking off streets around Portland Street...

 

[bert38]

Going off the video it seemed like a few minutes of hassle before he did the unthinkable, I just don’t understand how units aren’t within a moment as soon as something happens. With the way the world is at the minute, I just assumed the police would be all over it, able to respond at numerous locations within a minute. If manpowers an issue, don’t hold a parade, knocks me sick the thought of taking my girls to a parade and knowing you’re within striking distance from absolute lunatics.

Looks like a number of police were trying to stop members of the public attacking the car.

It really isn’t simple-there were tens of thousands of people there, huge congestion-

 

[Bluesince1979]

Angry society gets angrier. Angry mob, angry driver, angry social media. Rinse and repeat.

Yep.
Bloke fucks up.
Mob getting angry and start banging car.
man gets angry back

Couldve all so easily have been so different

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Jesus, really bad news, just going out to celebrate your team winning and some complete twat decides to do this. Thoughts and prayers to all those affected.

 

[Fordyboy46]

The car definitely looked like it aimed for the crowd. Both sides of spectators opened up to give him a free run, but he went off to the right and ploughed into people

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

The driver could have come out of a private underground garage within the parade area and not knowing what the fuck was going on and which way to go.
Until the details are fully known it's difficult to speculate.

Fucking hell. Was he living under a rock to not know about the parade?

I guess we need to find excuses for some and not others!

 

[DCS1]

Jesus, really bad news, just going out to celebrate your team winning and some complete twat decides to do this. Thoughts and prayers to all those affected.

My thoughts are with our fellow fans -but why wasnt there a road block around the parade ? When City have parades all surrounding roads are shut for ages before ? Hope no one is too badly hurt although judging by the video that seems unlikely

 

[ob]

Know quite a few that were there today, one young lad has had his leg broken and about 6 have messaged to say safe

 

[M18CTID]

Fucking hell. Was he living under a rock to not know about the parade?

I guess we need to find excuses for some and not others!

Unless he had a medical episode, I don’t think anyone’s making excuses for him - just trying to work out why he ended up in an area that should’ve been closed off to traffic

 

[Mike N]

Thankfully, no major incidents that I'm aware of.
But our daughter and friends (with kids) nearly got caught up in a bad crushing when we won the Quad.
Some idiot allowed the trams to continue working during the parade - which was re-routed from it's originally posted route.
There was serious panic in front of the Central Library.
Also because of the re-route, people were trying to "find" the new route with security and police blocking off streets around Portland Street...

Was involved in a near-crush near Mosley Street during the Treble Parade. Not nice at all.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Yep.
Bloke fucks up.
Mob getting angry and start banging car.
man gets angry back

Couldve all so easily have been so different

Happened recently with a Barcelona fan outside Espanyol’s stadium

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Think this will be the end of trophy parades of this style and size.

 

[youngbob]

Think this will be the end of trophy parades of this style and size.

I dunno, the Arena bomb wasn't the end of concerts in Manchester.

Think things will just be way tighter security-wise.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

Unless he had a medical episode, I don’t think anyone’s making excuses for him - just trying to work out why he ended up in an area that should’ve been closed off to traffic

Maybe he did maybe he didn’t.

Until we get more information everything else is pure speculation.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

From some of the videos I have seen it appears the driver was carefully driving down a congested road, how he was on the road is another matter. People then started throwing things at the car and it appears that someone managed to open the driver’s door. I can then only assume the driver panicked, possibly fearing for his safety and accelerated into the crowd. In one video all I can hear is one bloke repeatedly shouting ‘fucking kill him’. Terrifyingly it reminded me a little of the two soldiers who accidentally drove into an IRA funeral and were then dragged out of their cars and murdered. Even when the police had surrounded the car and were arresting this guy Liverpool fans were trying to attack him. Fingers crossed that there are no fatalities but there will be a lot of questions that need to be answered. I don’t think it’s as simple as it was someone who has mental health issues or a disgruntled Everton fan.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Some guy on bbc news on to talk about the incident completely obsessed by the sight of seeing police running. What a strange thing to be fixated on after what's happened.