NI Liverpool fan released from hospital after being struck by car at parade

A northern Ireland man was discharged from the hospital after being hit by a car in a Liverpool Football Club parade.

Jack Trotter, from Newtownards, County Down, and his girlfriend Abbie Gallagher were hit by the car while driving fans in Water Street, in Liverpool.

It happened around 18:00 BST on Monday when thousands of Liverpool FC fans gathered in the city center for the Premier League victory parade.

Speaking to BBC News or from the hospital on Monday night, Trotter said he was in “absolute agony.”

The couple had traveled to the parade with friends from Northern Ireland.

The Merseyside police says that a 53 -year -old British man was arrested.

Jenny Sims police assistant said the incident is not treated as terrorism.

David Kitchen, from the Northwest ambulance service, said that 27 patients were tasks for several hospitals throughout Liverpool.

Four of the injury were children and a paramedic on a bicycle was also beaten but not seriously Kured, he added.

In a publication on social networks, Trotter said the scenes were “crazy.”

“I’m writing this because I have a million text messages asking if I’m fine and it’s Krazy here. I barely have any service,” he said.

“The parade was unreal until the end. Unfortunately, I was beaten, however, I am very lucky when I dodged the car just in time, however, I still hit myself.

“In absolute surprise, how an event like this can resort to such a tragedy.”

Ross Welsh, from Lisburn, said he had to “jump to get out of the way” from the car, but he saw no one hit by him.

“The parade was very finished and we were walking back to the city and the crowds were huge, so you barely moved, but you moved slightly,” Nolan spent.

“You heard the screw of a horn and the car going quickly along a path that was full of people.

“Later, the road was open to cars, [but] This car had reached the closed sign of the road and then sailed to its road very shortly before seeing it.

“Then he was drinking and squeezed his tires to stop.”

Hi, he added: “We had to get out of the way, now I was very close, but I was close enough to feel that we had to get out of the way quickly.

“Once the videos began to come out and you realize that it was that car we were close, they shook my night and thanked that I was a niece as I could have done.

“It really puts a stamps and you feel that you can no longer celebrate.”

The BBC presenter in Northern Ireland and Radio 5, Connor Phillips, was in the crowd, about 500 meters from Water Street at the time of the incident.

“There were two helicopters in the sky and obviously they were following the parade and provided images of the parade while it happened,” he told Good Morning Ulster.

“When we began to disperse after the team, approved and after the prime minister’s league trophy had died, we noticed that there was another helicopter in the sky and one of my friends said:” I think it is an air ambulance. “

“So, when we returned to Liverpool, we return to where we are where, we began to see and began to listen to different things, it was starting to arrive.”

Phillips said it was “as if the wind were tasks out of everyone’s candles.”

“Back in the pubs, bars and restaurants in which he was, people gathered around television, we were watching the last minute news, the yellow news line that lasts the yellow news line that has been a great incident in Liverpool.

“It took us all for a while to accept it.”

He said he returned to the incident scene on Tuesday morning by five live.

“The scene has been touched: it is chaotic and is quite sad after a couple of incredible days in meseyside,” Phillips added.

On Monday night, BBC News did not spoke with some fans who had traveled to Liverpool, after their flight landed in Belfast.

John Baxter attended the parade but did not see what happened.

“We were below in the city at that time,” he said.

“Going with Liverpool fans to something like this always expect something good, but unfortunately he went to the other side.”

Daniel Baxter said the mood was “a bit disappointed.”

“Liverpool has waited so long to celebrate something and we really had our day and then something like this had to happen,” he said.

“Before the incident, everything was fine, everyone was happy, partying, celebrating and then I think that once the news began to leave, what happened happened, everyone was panic to know what happened, get to the bottom.

“There was a policeman everywhere, I really don’t know how it happened, that’s the thing, the streets were cordoned off.”

Stephen Boyd described the incident as “scary.”

“Until that incident, I would say, there was at least one million in the streets and I thought it behaved very well and very well in all fans, it is simply shocking.”