79 people injured in Monday’s collision, with seven in hospital in ‘stable condition’ – police
Merseyside police have just shared an update. Here are the main lines:
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Seven people remain in hospital in a stable condition.
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Police have identified more injured people – they are now in contact with 79 people who were injured in Monday’s incident.
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The alleged driver remains in police custody after Merseyside police’s investigations team was granted further time to continue questioning him in police custody, which will remain in place until tomorrow.
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Water Street, where the collision took place, has now reopened to vehicles and pedestrians after the police cordon was stood down.
Key events
Our story on Merseyside police being granted more time to question the suspected driver of a car which ploughed into a crowd at Liverpool’s victory parade is here:
Messages of support have been sent to the people of Liverpool since the incident, including from the King who said: “I know that the strength of community spirit for which your city is renowned will be a comfort and support to those in need.”
The Prince and Princess of Wales also said they were “deeply saddened” by the parade crash, adding: “What should have been a joyful celebration ended with tragedy.”
Officers are scouring CCTV footage to piece together the Ford Galaxy’s movements before the incident, Det Supt Rachel Wilson said in a statement released by Merseyside police.
She said:
I’m pleased to say that the number of people in hospital is reducing as they continue to recover from the awful incident. We continue to support those still receiving treatment and as part of our ongoing enquiries we are identifying more people who were injured.
I want to reassure the public of Merseyside that detectives are making significant progress as we seek to establish the full circumstances that led to what happened.
In addition, extensive CCTV enquiries are being carried out across the city to establish the movements of the car, a Ford Galaxy, before the incident took place.
We have already had an incredible response from many of those who were there on the day, and I thank them for their co-operation with our investigation.
I would encourage anyone who has not yet contacted police who may have information on this incident to do so. An extensive investigation into the precise circumstances of the incident is ongoing, and we continue to ask people not to speculate on the circumstances surrounding the incident and refrain from sharing distressing content online.
79 people injured in Monday’s collision, with seven in hospital in ‘stable condition’ – police
Merseyside police have just shared an update. Here are the main lines:
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Seven people remain in hospital in a stable condition.
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Police have identified more injured people – they are now in contact with 79 people who were injured in Monday’s incident.
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The alleged driver remains in police custody after Merseyside police’s investigations team was granted further time to continue questioning him in police custody, which will remain in place until tomorrow.
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Water Street, where the collision took place, has now reopened to vehicles and pedestrians after the police cordon was stood down.
At least 65 people were reported to have been injured in Monday’s collision, as of Tuesday. We are still waiting for updates on the 11 people who were confirmed yesterday to be in hospital recovering in a stable condition.
Police given more time to question suspected driver of car that ploughed into Liverpool crowd
Police have been given more time to question the 53-year-old driver who allegedly collided into a crowd at Liverpool’s victory parade on Monday, Merseyside Police said.
As a reminder, the man, who is from the West Derby area of Liverpool, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, driving while unfit through drugs and dangerous driving.
Dale Street, which later leads to Water Street where the collision happened, has reopened.
According to the Liverpool Echo, most of the streets leading on to Dale Street were blocked by police while enquiries into the incident were being conducted.
Andy Hunter
Andy Hunter is a football correspondent for the Guardian based in Liverpool
Arne Slot pulled out of the League Managers Association’s annual awards dinner in London on Tuesday after the appalling incident at the end of Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade.
The Liverpool head coach was due to receive the LMA’s and the Premier League’s manager of the year awards at the event for winning the title in his first season in English football. However, in light of the incident in Liverpool city centre on Monday, when 65 people were injured when a car drove into a crowd on Water Street, Slot and a senior delegation of Liverpool officials decided they should not attend.
Liverpool cancelled all internal events after the incident and Slot felt it would be inappropriate to celebrate his achievements at the dinner. He sent a letter of apology to the LMA and event organisers in which he expressed his sadness at the horrific scenes that followed Liverpool’s trophy parade through the city.
Slot wrote:
As you will know, a shocking incident took place in Liverpool yesterday, one that left dozens of men, women and children who had attended our parade injured and as a result I have had to withdraw from the event out of solidarity with all affected. This is not a decision I have taken lightly but it is one that I feel is absolutely right given the seriousness of the situation. I hope that I have your understanding in this regard.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the wider football community, including the LMA itself, the Premier League and many clubs who will be represented tonight, for the support we have received over the last 24 hours. Football is and always should be a game built on rivalry, but it is also a great source of comradeship, especially at times like this.
The Be Free campaign, a Liverpool-based charity supporting young people’s mental health, has said it will be running a “mental health and wellbeing session” for children and young people with symptoms of anxiety or “stress” caused by Monday’s events.
“Sessions will be free to attend without the need of a referral,” it said in a post on Instagram, in which the charity expressed “deep concern” about the images and videos circulating online from the collision.
“These images and the event may cause distress to children and young people who may have viewed them or were in attendance.”
How events unfolded in the Liverpool parade collision
My colleague Caroline Davies has written up a summary of how events on Monday unfolded:
More than 500,000 people had lined the streets to watch Liverpool players and staff on an open-top bus with the Premier League trophy travel a 10-mile route over three-and-a-half hours.
The victory parade began at Allerton Maze, south of the city, and ended with a finale on the Strand.
Just after 6pm BST on Water Street, about a mile from the end of the parade and after the team had recently passed, a vehicle collided with members of the crowd, according to witnesses.
Footage of the incident circulating online appears to show the vehicle speed up as it veers into pedestrians on both sides of the street, with people knocked to the floor off the windshield, falling to the ground and darting out of the way to avoid harm.
Water Street opens as normal after clean up following Liverpool parade collision
Water Street in Liverpool, where the the incident occurred, was open as normal on Wednesday morning, with traffic travelling down towards The Strand.
Police tents put in place in the road after Monday’s car ramming incident had gone, and bottles, cans and scarves left on the ground had been cleared away.
A Liverpool flag remained on top of traffic lights and some remnants of police incident tape could be seen on signposts and in a bin, the PA news agency reports.
Here is an extract from our interview with former superintendent Dal Babu, who welcomed the decision to name the ethnicity and nationality of the suspect in the Liverpool incident, but said doing so in future could raise challenges for forces going forward.
Babu stressed the decision had been “correct” to share the information on this occasion to combat “racist and Islamophobic misinformation” on social media, while warning that every decision should be taken on a case by case basis.
“You could imagine a situation where the far right will say, ‘Oh, you haven’t named the ethnicity of this person and that’s because they are a person of colour’,” he said.
“It’s really important that people don’t see it as a precedent because every incident will be different. People may feel in a future incident that they’re entitled to know the ethnicity and race, and it may not be appropriate to release it,” he said.
A senior legal source said there could be circumstances where naming the ethnicity of a suspect could cause riots rather than quell them.
“What will a force do if they arrest someone in similar circumstances who is recently arrived on a small boat or who has a clearly Muslim name? They will now be under huge pressure to name them,” the source said.
Suspect’s personal details should be released earlier more often, Met police chief says
The head of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, has been speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about Merseyside police’s decision to quickly reveal the ethnicity and nationality of the alleged driver.
Rowley said that going forward “we would always have to be more transparent in terms of the data we release” when possible, although this depends on the nature of the investigation, as some cases are more legally sensitive than others.
He was then asked to respond to comments made by Dal Babu, a former senior Met officer, who told the Guardian he could envisage pressure being applied to forces in future to release details on the racial background of suspects.
“It doesn’t take rocket science to predict what will happen: the far right will twist this and say, ‘right, you’ve named [the race] because it’s a white person. Why aren’t you naming [the race of] the next person?’ And it will present some difficulties and challenges to the police”, Babu said.
BBC News presenter Amol Rajan also put it to Rowley that naming the ethnicity of the suspect may create a certain precedent so in cases when police don’t divulge such information conspiracy theories will grow rampant.
Rowley responded:
In general, I think we have to be realistic and more often put more personal details in public earlier.
I think the reason for that, I think it creates all sorts of practical problems and Dal is very thoughtful in what he’s saying, and I don’t disagree with his concerns, but we’re in such an age of citizen journalism, people have screenshots, phones… some content will be all over social media very, very quickly. People will be making guesses and inferences.
I think in that world putting more facts out is the only way to deal with it. And if those facts generate some emboldened racists on some cases, then we need to confront those individuals.
But I think trying to avoid truths, when half the truth is in the public domain is going to be quite difficult going forward.
“Were police in Liverpool and Merseyside right to release the ethnicity of the suspect that attacked fans at that parade?”@amolrajan asks Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley.#R4Today
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) May 28, 2025
There has been talk around Merseyside Police’s unusual decision to publicly release the ethnicity (white) and nationality (British) of the alleged driver of the car that ploughed into football fans during Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade on Monday.
Merseyside police said they arrested a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area about two hours after the incident that left dozens of people, including four children, injured.
The decision shows lessons may have been learned in the wake of the Southport attacks last year, when speculation about the identity of the suspect behind the stabbings had been rampant on social media and filled a void left by Merseyside police releasing few details about the 17-year-old they had in custody.
Usually when a suspect is arrested, police forces in England and Wales only reveal the person’s age and where they were arrested.
Police continue questioning suspected driver of car that ploughed into crowd in Liverpool
Welcome to our continued live coverage after a car ploughed into a crowd at Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade on Bank Holiday Monday.
Merseyside Police said there was a total of 65 confirmed casualties following the incident in Water Street.
More than 50 people, including children, were treated in different hospitals and 11 people remained there on Tuesday in a stable condition. There were no “major traumas” or life-threatening injuries among the victims, medical staff at Royal Liverpool university hospital said.
The alleged driver of the car, a 53-year-old British man, from the West Derby area of Liverpool, has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving and attempted murder and is being interviewed in custody.
Police say the man was also being detained on suspicion of dangerous driving and driving while unfit through drugs.
Detectives have been given additional time to question the man until around lunchtime on Wednesday. The incident is not being treated as terrorism.
Merseyside’s assistant chief constable Jenny Sims told a press conference:
It is believed the driver of the Ford Galaxy car involved in this incident was able to follow an ambulance onto Water Street after the road block was temporarily lifted so that the ambulance crew could attend to a member of the public who was having a heart attack.
