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| New Orleans: dozens injured after pickup truck ploughs into parade crowd | New Orleans: dozens injured after pickup truck ploughs into parade crowd |
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| At least 28 people, including a young child, were injured when a vehicle ploughed into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade in the Mid-City section of New Orleans. | At least 28 people, including a young child, were injured when a vehicle ploughed into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade in the Mid-City section of New Orleans. |
| The Times-Picayune said the crash was reported at about 6:45pm on Saturday as the city prepared for the Mardi Gras celebrations. | The Times-Picayune said the crash was reported at about 6:45pm on Saturday as the city prepared for the Mardi Gras celebrations. |
| The truck, traveling along the side of the street open to traffic along the Mid-City parade route, struck three other vehicles, including a dump truck, before veering onto the median where a crowd of people stood watching the procession, according to New Orleans police. | |
| Officials said 21 people, including a police officer, were taken to seven hospitals. Five were in a critical condition. Seven of the injured refused to be hospitalised. | Officials said 21 people, including a police officer, were taken to seven hospitals. Five were in a critical condition. Seven of the injured refused to be hospitalised. |
| The victims range in age from as young as three or four-years-old to adults in their 30s and 40s, city emergency services director, Dr Jeff Selder said. | The victims range in age from as young as three or four-years-old to adults in their 30s and 40s, city emergency services director, Dr Jeff Selder said. |
| Police chief Michael Harrison said one person was in custody. | Police chief Michael Harrison said one person was in custody. |
| “We suspect that that subject was highly intoxicated,” he said. | “We suspect that that subject was highly intoxicated,” he said. |
| The city’s mayor Mitch Landrieu said on Twitter that no one had suffered life-threatening injuries and thanked first responders. | The city’s mayor Mitch Landrieu said on Twitter that no one had suffered life-threatening injuries and thanked first responders. |
| Images and video from the scene were posted on social media showing the injured being stretchered into waiting ambulances. | Images and video from the scene were posted on social media showing the injured being stretchered into waiting ambulances. |
| At least 4 loaded into ambulances by Endymion parade at Carrollton and Orleans after car hits people. @WWLTV pic.twitter.com/9fhdNH9PT6 | At least 4 loaded into ambulances by Endymion parade at Carrollton and Orleans after car hits people. @WWLTV pic.twitter.com/9fhdNH9PT6 |
| NBCNC: Scene where a vehicle crashed into spectators of the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans. At least 12 critically hurt. @WVTM13 pic.twitter.com/0qZmtQunpE | NBCNC: Scene where a vehicle crashed into spectators of the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans. At least 12 critically hurt. @WVTM13 pic.twitter.com/0qZmtQunpE |
| #MardiGras2017 Orleans & Carrollton - at least a dozen are critical after someone slammed their vehicle into the Endymion crowd. pic.twitter.com/ohlne83zlr | #MardiGras2017 Orleans & Carrollton - at least a dozen are critical after someone slammed their vehicle into the Endymion crowd. pic.twitter.com/ohlne83zlr |
| Witness Greg McNeely told the Times Picayune he was watching the parade when a pick-up truck sped through the intersection and came to rest against a rubbish bin. | Witness Greg McNeely told the Times Picayune he was watching the parade when a pick-up truck sped through the intersection and came to rest against a rubbish bin. |
| Several people, including a police officer, were pinned underneath the truck, he said. | Several people, including a police officer, were pinned underneath the truck, he said. |
| “He took out rows of people,” McNeely said. | “He took out rows of people,” McNeely said. |
| One woman at the scene told The New Orleans Advocate that a silver truck whisked by her just feet away as she was walking through the intersection. | One woman at the scene told The New Orleans Advocate that a silver truck whisked by her just feet away as she was walking through the intersection. |
| Carrie Kinsella said, “I felt a rush it was so fast.” | Carrie Kinsella said, “I felt a rush it was so fast.” |
| Twenty-year-old Kourtney McKinnis told the Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done. | Twenty-year-old Kourtney McKinnis told the Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done. |
| “He was just kind of out of it,” she said. | “He was just kind of out of it,” she said. |
| The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans said its agents were “coordinating with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners to determine whether a federal violation has occurred.” | |
| The Endymion parade incident was not the only one to mar Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans on Saturday. Earlier in the day, someone’s gun went off accidentally in a portable toilet along the route of another, smaller parade, leaving one person wounded, police said. | |
| Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report |