Car collides with pedestrians at parade celebrating soccer win in Liverpool, England

Car collides with pedestrians at parade celebrating soccer win in Liverpool, England


Emergency services at the scene in Liverpool, England, after multiple people were hit by a car during the Victory paradeon May 26, 2025.

Phil Noble | Reuters

As thousands of people lined the streets to celebrate Liverpool Football Club’s English Premier League title win, a car collided with a number of pedestrians in the center of Liverpool, a city in northwest England, police said Monday.

Describing it as a “major incident” on X, Merseyside police said the car “stopped at the scene and a male detained.” In a later statement, police said “the suspect was white, British and from the Liverpool area.” It added that he was 53 years old.

Footage of the scene showed police cordons in place around a heavily littered road and emergency vehicles in place.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the scenes “appalling” in a post on X. “My thoughts are with all those injured or affected,” he said, adding that he was “being kept updated on developments.”

An eyewitness, Natasha Rinaldi, told the British broadcaster Sky News that “people sounded desperate” and she saw the car had “run over people.” (Sky News is owned by Comcast, the parent company of NBC News.)

“Then people started rushing to go after the driver and they tried to break the car. The police did everything to block and to push people away,” Rinaldi said. “We could just hear screams and screams. We were very confused.”

“Some of my friends were down there and the car was so near them. It was a horrible scene, nobody was expecting it.”

Harry Rashid, 48, from Solihull, told the PA news agency that he was at the parade with his wife and two young daughters when he witnessed the collision.

“It happened about 10 feet away from us,” he said. “We were just in a crowd and we had no control over where we would be, because it was a very narrow street.”

“The vehicle came to our right. It emerged from just right next to an ambulance, which was parked up. This gray people carrier just pulled up from the right and just rammed into all the people at the side of us,” he added.

In a statement posted to X, Liverpool FC said it was in contact with the police about the incident. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected,” it added.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. 



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