Vehicle Plows Into High School Band At Mardi Gras Parade

Gulf Shores, Alabama

This is terrible!


At least four teenagers are in critical condition.

It was a parade participant vehicle. The SUV was behind the band in line waiting for the parade to begin. They don't know if an accelerator peddle stuck or what.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/28/vehicle-drives-into-gulf-shores-mardi-gras-parade-injuries-reported.html

 

What the hell is going on? This is happening too much!

 

That is terrible. I hope the students and all involved will recover.

 

I really dont think 70yr old's should be driving floats/ or whatever during parades and stuff. I might be nice to have veteran grand-pappy drive. But the excitement and needing to pay attention can play a major role in accidents of this type. Understandably anyone can suffer a seizure, heart attack. Vehicles can have equipment failures.. But the statistics go up with age. More inspection of vehicles, and drivers physical health is needed..


>speaking of the other plow incident.. >>
Other type parade routes and gatherings need be barricaded, with Jessey barriers, box trucks, police cars. Wooden horses just dont cut the mustard anymore..

 

It is terrible. It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy there weren't more.

 

The parade hadn't started. They were in line waiting to step off. The 73 yr old was to drive the SUV behind the band. Police say they don't know if the equipment failure was within the old man or within the vehicle. They are going to check the on board computers to try to determine how to charge him.

 

WTF.....???..... :unsure:



Cheers Glen.

 

Apparently the parade was moving, I'm reading that they had just turned a corner when it happened.

The driver was in the parade as part of The American Legion Honor Guard.

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/03/eight_injured_gulf_shores_stud.html

 

Three teens are still in Critical but Stable condition this morning.


Ford Expedition

 

At least it wasn't another damned Radical Islamic Terrorist.

 

If you all had followed my advice and banned all Abrahamic religion, we wouldn't have to worry about those anymore.

 

So why don't you overturn trump! Make your rules, then we would all do as you say!

Oh shhhhhhh No3

 

I wish I could, but the sheeple are too massive and divisive to help a true leader such as me succeed. It's all about the money...the way to have any say in society is to have lots of money...something I don't have.

 

What makes you a true leader then?

Convince me!

 

Because my aim is to make the individual as happy and prosperous as possible. I also have a keen sense of right and wrong.

 

That's just words, like someone saying a speach wanting to win miss world!

Convince me!

 

Show me the money and I'll show you a philanthropic organization with cutting edge scientific breakthroughs.

 

Hillary Clinton didn't have much $$$ to begin with, then there's the "foundation". lol,

And to top it off, she got big donations from countries that don't allow their women any freedoms. I hope you're not going that direction...

 

As an on-topic update to this story,


Larry Rathbun, driving a 2008 Ford Expedition behind the Gulf Shores High School marching band on Feb. 28, told police that "someone standing out in the road" asked him to speed up to close the gap between band members.
Then, according an accident report released Monday into the tragic Mardi Gras parade crash in Gulf Shores, Rathbun pressed down on the accelerator and accidentally pressed too hard. He then collided with the marching band members.
Rathbun, 73, of Fairhope, then tried pressing the brake to stop but "must have been pressing the accelerator and was unable to stop quickly," according to the report released by the Gulf Shores Police Department and forwarded to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
A dozen youths, ages 12 to 17 years old, were injured and taken to area hospitals. At least one remains hospitalized, according to a report from the Baldwin County School System last week. Another student was taken to the University of South Alabama's burn and wound care center for additional surgery and skin grafts.
No additional updates were provided Monday. http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/03/report_indicates_driver_in_gul.html