The driver, a 53-year-old British man, was arrested, but the event was not being treated as terrorism, the police said. Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the scenes as “appalling.”
A driver slammed a car into a crowd celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League victory, seriously injuring a child and an adult and sending more than two dozen people to hospitals, officials in England said on Monday.
The crash created chaos at the end of a festive day in which hundreds of thousands of sports fans had gathered for a parade through the Liverpool city center to celebrate their team.
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The driver, a 53-year-old British man from the Liverpool area, was arrested at the scene after the vehicle stopped, the Merseyside Police said in a statement. Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said at a late-night news conference that investigators were not treating the crash as terrorism and believed it had been an isolated incident.
She also said the police were not searching for anyone else involved in the case, but declined to provide any details about what might have prompted the crash. Earlier Monday evening, the police said in a statement that extensive inquiries were being made “to establish the circumstances leading up to the collision,” and asked people “not to share distressing content online.”
Nearly 50 people were injured, the police said. Four of those were children, the North West Ambulance Service said, including one with serious injuries.
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