Car hits fans at Dutch royal show
A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.
Thursday, 30.04.2009.
16:19
A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others. The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals. Car hits fans at Dutch royal show No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam. Dutch police earlier told the BBC they believed it appeared to have been a deliberate attack. A royal family spokeswoman said the driver of the car, who was injured, was arrested on the spot. Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed. "There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said. The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to celebrate the queen's official birthday. In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash. "Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.
Car hits fans at Dutch royal show
No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.Dutch police earlier told the BBC they believed it appeared to have been a deliberate attack.
A royal family spokeswoman said the driver of the car, who was injured, was arrested on the spot.
Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.
"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.
The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to celebrate the queen's official birthday.
In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.
"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.
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