https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/26/europe/liverpool-car-hits-pedestrians-latam-i...Man arrested after car plows into pedestrians during Liverpool Football Club’s victory parade
Mon May 26, 2025
London
CNN
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UK police have arrested a man after a car plowed into Liverpool fans during the soccer club’s Premier League trophy parade on Monday evening.
“The man arrested is a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area,” Merseyside police said in a statement, urging people not to speculate on the circumstances of the incident.
The local police force previously said they were contacted just after 6 p.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) “following reports a car had been in collision with a number of pedestrians” in the city center.
“The car stopped at the scene and a male has been detained,” it added.
The incident comes the same day the city was filled with soccer fans attending an open-top bus parade to celebrate Liverpool Football Club’s 20th top-flight league title.
Video from social media appears to show the vehicle plowing into pedestrians celebrating in the street.
“This gray people carrier just pulled up from the right and just rammed into all the people at the side of us … It was extremely fast. Initially, we just heard the pop, pop, pop of people just being knocked off the bonnet of a car,” one fan, Harry Rashid, told the UK’s PA Media news agency.