'I was telling him to stop': Man 'traumatised' after being hit by car during Liverpool parade

A antheral who was among the dozens injured erstwhile a car drove done a assemblage astatine Liverpool's Premier League trophy parade has told Sky News however helium pleaded with the operator to halt earlier helium was struck and sent "spinning".

Jack Trotter and his woman Abbie Gallagher had conscionable met immoderate different Liverpool fans and were taking videos erstwhile the Ford Galaxy rapidly approached.

Ms Gallagher told Sky News' communities analogous Lisa Holland however she screamed "Jack, Jack" arsenic the operator "rammed done everybody".

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Mr Trotter said: "He rammed done the archetypal acceptable of people, but erstwhile it got to me, I enactment my hands up, telling him to stop, but besides to support myself

"He conscionable tried to tally done me. I twisted, and helium conscionable caught my legs. I'm wholly bedbound astatine the moment. I'm traumatised."

Ms Gallagher was deed connected the close broadside of the car, portion Mr Trotter was struck connected the left, but she managed to prevention herself by pushing herself disconnected the bonnet.

She said: "Everything was mental. Everyone was crying. I was successful hysterics. I couldn't find him for astatine slightest 5 minutes."

'My back's gone'

"I look astir and there's radical successful the air. I conscionable freaked out. I was conscionable trying to find Jack.

"Luckily enough, helium heard maine screaming. He came up and said, 'I'm here'. We didn't cognize what to say, we were conscionable crying."

Mr Trotter told her "my back's gone" and slumped against a wall.

As Ms Gallagher tried to assistance him up, a adjacent antheral and pistillate came to help, and they carried him into a bar.

Those who helped - firefighters, paramedics, constabulary and barroom unit - were "amazing", she said.

"They gave america a hug erstwhile we needed it due to the fact that everyone was crying," she added.

"They had to telephone for an ambulance to come. They gave Jack state and aerial to effort and easiness the symptom and different meds for painkillers. They got him onto a bed. He was crying and screaming."

'We are successful daze still'

Ms Gallagher added: "The infirmary was amazing. The doctors made america laugh, tried to easiness what happened. We rang my household and his family. We are conscionable successful daze still."

Mr Trotter, who is 1 of much than 50 radical who were injured successful the incident, said his "legs are ok", but his backmost had "completely gone".

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