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Monday, December 9, 2024 8:19PM
New details are emerging aft a constabulary serviceman connected a motorcycle crashed into a assemblage astatine a vacation solemnisation successful Palm Springs.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KABC) -- The Palm Springs constabulary main says an serviceman was doing assemblage power and demonstrations during a holiday parade implicit the play erstwhile helium mislaid equilibrium of his motorcycle and slammed into the crowd.
Police Chief Andy Mills told our Palm Springs affiliate, KESQ, an interior probe volition analyse each item of Saturday's crash. He identified the serviceman who crashed arsenic Kenney Merenda.
Video shows his motorcycle speeding up seconds earlier the collision astatine the Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade. Eleven radical were wounded and Merenda fractured his hand.
At slightest 10 radical were injured Saturday day erstwhile a constabulary serviceman crashed into a assemblage astatine a vacation solemnisation successful Palm Springs.
"He mislaid his equilibrium connected the bike. His ft slipped disconnected the peg and it caused him to person to grip the handlebars, which caused the motorcycle to accelerate astatine a accelerated speed," Chief Mills said.
The constabulary main besides defended the determination not to halt the parade, saying sending tens of thousands of radical successful antithetic directions would person caused much chaos.
Meanwhile, the California Highway Patrol is asking anybody who has video of the incidental to stock it with them.
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