Couple and baby hit by car at Liverpool parade

"People going flying and people screaming and just terror, pure terror... I thought I'd lost everything."

Daniel Eveson's partner was dragged under car wheels and his baby son's pram tossed down the street as a vehicle was driven into a crowd of pedestrians who had watched Liverpool FC's open-top bus Premier League trophy parade.

For a moment, he did not know if his partner or son had survived, he said.

Mr Eveson, from Telford, Shropshire, was among dozens hurt during the incident on Water Street in Liverpool city centre on Monday, with two seriously injured. A 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area has been arrested.

He and his family had been walking up the parade at about 18:00 BST when they noticed people running towards them.

Suddenly, the car emerged from the crowd.

"I saw a gentleman on the bonnet and the rest was just chaos," he told BBC Radio Shropshire.

The car struck him in the chest before his partner went under its wheels and was dragged down the road.

Meanwhile, the impact spun their son's pram about four and half metres (15ft) down the street.

For a moment, Mr Eveson did not know whether either of them had survived.

"It was hard because I didn't know where anyone was or what to do," he said. "A lot of people were angry and I saw the car getting smashed."

Mr Eveson was able to locate his son, who was unharmed, and leave him in a restaurant with helpers as he went back to search for his partner.

Their baby was now as "good as gold", he said, while his partner remained in hospital and was waiting to hear whether she could return home.

"It was the day it was meant to be to start off with, it was perfect," he said. "And under the sea of chaos it changed to the worst day of my life.

"It will stay with me for the rest of my life. I don't believe I'll be able to go to a parade again because there will always be that fear at the back of my mind."

Harry Rashid, from Solihull, was in the crowd with his wife and three daughters when he saw the car "surge forward" and strike people just "10 yards" away.

"There were people crying around us, there were people screaming, it just didn't seem real," he said.

Merseyside Police said "a number of pedestrians" were hit by the vehicle as they gathered to watch the parade.

"There were people lying on the ground, one of them was crumpled over," Mr Rashid said.

"It was horrible."

He added some in the crowd had tried to force the car's door open and get the driver out.

"I was just hoping that somehow it [would] just stop," he said.

"There were kids [there], my own kids were there, and we had nowhere to go. We were all just stuck amongst this crowd. We were all just pressed against each other."

His first feelings were of confusion, he said, adding: "Where do you get away, where do you go?

"The other worry was: 'Is this guy by himself? Is there someone else?'"

The ambulance service said 27 people were taken to hospital and 20 others were treated for injuries at the scene. One of the two seriously injured people is a child.

Police say they are not treating the incident as terror-related.

"I really wish the best for everyone who has loved ones who've been injured," said Mr Rashid, who has 25-year-old twin daughters and a third daughter aged 14.

"We're the fortunate ones - we've just got the emotional trauma."

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