The 53-year-old white British man was celebrating the city’s Premier League Championship on Monday, plowing his minivan into a crowd of Liverpool football fans.
The driver arrested is believed to be the only person involved in the incident and was not investigated as a terrorist act, police said.
Northwest Air Ambulance Dave Kitchen said 27 people were taken to hospital, two seriously injured, and a further 20 people were treated for minor injuries at the scene. At least four children were injured.
Firefighters had to lift the vehicle to release the four casualties trapped underneath. One of the injured was a Medic, who worked on a bicycle.
The social media video showed at least one pedestrian a grey mini-van strike, then appeared to be pushing his body towards a larger crowd before halting through the group and along the street.
“It was very fast,” said Harry Rashid, who was with his wife and two young daughters as the car passed. “In the beginning, I just heard pop, pop, pop, pop from people being knocked out of the hood of a car.”
Rashid said the crowd began charging the stopped vehicle and destroying the windows.
“But then he put his feet down again and plowed the rest, and he just kept going,” Rashid said. “It was horrifying, and you could hear the bumps as he was watching people.”
Rashid said it looked intentional.
“My daughter started screaming, and there was someone on the ground,” he said. “They are just innocent people, they just have fans enjoying the parade.”
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Liverpool fans have come to tens of thousands to celebrate the team that won the Premier League this season.
On a trip from the Isle of Man, Peter Jones said he heard the car crash into the crowd and saw at least half a dozen people.
“We heard a beep beep before, so the car flew past me and my mates, people chasing after it and trying to stop him. “He then ran past us to the people, police and doctors, people were being treated by the side of the road.”
Merseyside police said they were trying to establish what led to the incident and asked people not to speculate or share “an online, painful content.”
Prime Minister Kiel Starmer called the scene a terrifying and said the situation was being updated.
Liverpool’s final league title appeared in 2020, but supporters were denied the opportunity to celebrate publicly as restrictions are in place during the community pandemic.
This time, fans wielding their scarf and flags bravely lined the streets in the rainy weather and climbed the traffic lights to view the Liverpool players on two buses with the words “Our Again.”
Surrounded by heavy police presence, the hourly queue drove along a 10-mile (16-kilometer) route, passing through a sea of red smoke and rain. Fireworks exploded from a royal liver building in the heart of the city.
In a short statement, the team said their thoughts and prayers were those affected. The Premier League has issued a similar statement expressing shock at “the horrifying events in Liverpool.”
Police have identified the suspect as white in a decision that could prevent misinformation from preventing social media flooding.
Last summer, a teenager from a town near Southport killed three girls in a stinging rampage in a dance class, and injured 10 people, including two adults. The suspect’s misnames have spread on social media, and people have said he is an asylum seeker. In fact, he was born in British riots, spread across England and Northern Ireland, targeting Muslims and refugees in asylum seekers’ hotels, lasting for about a week.
