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On 26 May 2025, a Ford Galaxy was driven into a large crowd on Water Street in Liverpool, England, during a victory parade celebrating Liverpool F.C.’s Premier League win. Fifty people were hospitalised, including four children; Merseyside Police arrested a 53-year-old white British man at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder, dangerous driving and driving while unfit through drugs.
Prior to the incident, locals and supporters of Liverpool F.C. were taking part in the football club’s city-wide victory parade to celebrate their victory in the 2024–25 Premier League. An estimated one million people were in attendance.[2] The open-top bus carrying the football club’s team and staff members took a 10-mile (16 km) route starting at Allerton Maze and ending at The Strand in the city centre.[3] The incident took place 10 minutes after the bus
Shortly after 6 pm BST on 26 May 2025, a motorist was seen arguing with pedestrians before he accelerated and ploughed into a large group of them on Water Street in Liverpool during the parade.[4][5] The vehicle then stopped and people began smashing its windows, but the driver accelerated again and rammed into more people, with one witness saying it appeared intentional.[6] Victims with head and limb injuries were reportedly being treated inside a nearby restaurant.[7] By 7 pm a North West Air Ambulance had landed at the scene,[4] and tents were set up nearby.[8]
Just before 9:30 pm the NWAS said they had cleared the scene.[9] At 10:51 pm a press conference on the incident began, where NWAS said that 27 people were taken to hospital, four of whom were children, whilst a further 20 were treated at the scene for minor injuries; two of those hospitalised had serious injuries, including a child, and a number of others also took themselves to hospital for treatment. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service added that four people were trapped under the vehicle and had to be removed, including one child.[4][10] A cycling paramedic was also struck by the vehicle but avoided injury.[5] At a press conference the following day, police updated the number of hospitalisations to 50, eleven of whom were still at hospital but in a stable condition.[4]
The following day, police in forensic suits arrived at the scene at around 11:30 am and started taking photographs and going into a white tent.[4]
Merseyside Police said they had detained a 53-year-old white British man who was from the Liverpool area and counter-terrorism police were involved.[11][12] He was arrested at the scene, and is believed by police to be the driver of the vehicle. The vehicle involved in the incident was reportedly a grey Ford Galaxy.[13] Police are treating the incident as isolated and not related to terrorism,[4] since doing so would require them to demonstrate that the incident met the legal threshold of “advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause”.[14]
Reuters noted that police were “unusually quick to give a description of the man they arrested” to head off speculation of a religious motive after riots took place following misinformation spread about the 2024 Southport stabbings.[15]
In a press conference at 3:30 pm on 27 May, Merseyside Police said the man they had arrested was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, dangerous driving offences, and drug driving offences. It is believed the vehicle was able to access Water Street by following an ambulance that was responding to a suspected heart attack for which the road block was temporarily lifted. They also said that 50 people had been hospitalised, 11 of whom were still in hospital in a stable condition. Police announced they were reviewing CCTV “to understand the driver of the car’s movements”.[4]
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