SUV Plows Into Wisconsin Christmas Parade; Multiple Injuries

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — An SUV sped into a Christmas parade successful the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha connected Sunday, leaving aggregate radical injured, according to section officials and witnesses.

Police successful Waukesha, located astir 20 miles westbound of Milwaukee, were urging radical to debar the downtown area.

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A unrecorded video provender of the parade from the metropolis of Waukesha, arsenic good arsenic videos taken by parade attendees, showed a reddish SUV breaking done barriers and speeding into the roadway wherever the parade was taking place. It’s unclear however galore radical were injured. Police said they could not instantly supply details but scheduled a quality league adjacent the parade way for 7:30 p.m. CST.

Mayor Shawn Reilly told WITI successful Milwaukee that helium did not judge determination was immoderate existent information to the public. Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow told The Associated Press that determination were aggregate injuries, but helium did not cognize however galore oregon if anyone had been killed. Farrow was astatine the parade but near conscionable earlier the incidental occurred. He said helium was connected his mode location erstwhile helium saw constabulary cars responding.

One video shows the SUV striking what appears to beryllium members of a marching set and respective others on the parade way earlier driving on. The dependable of the marching set heard earlier the SUV approaches is replaced by screams.

Angelito Tenorio, a West Allis alderman who is moving for Wisconsin authorities treasurer, told the AP that helium was watching the parade with his household erstwhile they saw the SUV travel speeding into the area.

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“Then we heard a large bang,” Tenorio said. “And aft that, we conscionable heard deafening cries and screams from the crowd, from the radical astatine the parade. And radical started rushing, moving distant with tears successful their eyes crying.”

Tenorio said helium saw astir 10 people, children and adults, connected the crushed who appeared to person been deed by the vehicle.

“It conscionable happened truthful fast,” helium said. “It was beauteous horrifying.”

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