Car that ploughed into group of people.
A 53-year-old white British man was arrested when a car ploughed into a crowd of people during Liverpool FC’s victory parade (Picture: BBC)
The wife of a man who allegedly drove his car into a crowd at Liverpool FC’s victory parade found out about the crash when she ‘saw her car on the news’.
Neighbours of the 53-year-old describe him as a ‘family man’ with three ‘well behaved children’ who works as a company director, MailOnline reports.
The number of people that have been injured in the parade has risen to 79, including four children, while seven people are still in hospital.
A neighbour told The Sun: ‘The wife is a really nice woman and they have children.
‘No one can believe this has happened.
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‘She first realised when she saw it was her car on the telly, when she saw it being driven at the parade.
‘The normal police cars turned up at teatime then Matrix vans turned up later that night.’
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Neighbours of the suspect have reacted to the news (Picture: BBC)
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A Liverpool FC fan is taken away from the scene by the emergency services (Picture: Action Images via Reuters)
Neighbours believed the family had been the victim of a burglary when police arrived at the home.
Another said: ‘It’s completely out of character.
‘They are a nice family, the boys are well behaved. He is a fantastic guy.
‘He came over to help us once when our alarm went off. I know he did the same for our immediate neighbours, too.
‘It just doesn’t make any sense. Maybe he’s had some kind of a breakdown, maybe he just panicked in the moment?’
The man is being held at a police station in Merseyside following his arrest on suspicion of multiple attempted murders, driving under the influence of drugs and dangerous driving.
He is believed to have tailgated an ambulance that had been allowed through the cordon to get to someone having a heart attack.
TOPSHOT - Police forensics officers work at the scene on Water Street in Liverpool, north-west England on May 27, 2025, where a car ploughed in to crowds that had gathered on May 26 to watch an open-top bus victory parade for Liverpool's Premier League trophy parade. Police said Monday they were not treating a Liverpool car ramming which left 27 people hospitalised as terrorism, after a vehicle ploughed into crowds celebrating Liverpool's Premier League football title. "We believe this to be an isolated incident, and we are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it," Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims told a press conference, adding a 53-year-old British man had been arrested. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Police confirmed that the incident is not being treated as terror related (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)
A video shared exclusively with Metro showed the man driving into the crowd ‘deliberately’.
Radoslav Stamboliev, who filmed the clip, told Metro he thought the driver was ‘coming straight for us deliberately, completely straight faced’ and said there were children ‘everywhere’.
He had travelled up from London to watch the game, said he heard accelerating behind him before he jumped out of the way just in time.
He said: ‘I heard this massive engine revving behind me and he started to honk his horn as well.
‘He lunged forward and it felt like he was coming straight for us deliberately, completely straight faced.
‘Because he made so much noise before coming at us most of us moved out of the way in time.’
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