At least 10 injured after officer on motorcycle crashes into crowd at Palm Springs holiday parade

The serviceman mislaid power of his motorcycle portion attempting a instrumentality and severed his manus successful the process, according to witnesses.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KABC) -- At slightest 10 radical were injured Saturday day erstwhile a constabulary serviceman crashed into a assemblage astatine a vacation solemnisation successful Palm Springs.

It happened conscionable aft 6 p.m. astatine the Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade.

According to a connection issued by the city, the clang happened on the parade route.

Ten people, including the officer, were rushed to the infirmary with non-life threatening injuries, the metropolis said.

The serviceman reportedly mislaid power of his motorcycle portion attempting a instrumentality and severed his manus successful the process, according to witnesses. The motorcycle continued moving into the assemblage without him.

The California Highway Patrol is investigating the incidental and is requesting video and images beryllium emailed to PSCityGovernmentMedia@palmspringsca.gov.

"We admit the community's enactment and our thoughts are with the officer, his household and each of those injured today," work the city's statement.

The incidental remains nether investigation.