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Dec 2, 2008 12:15 am US/Eastern
Holiday Parade Accident Injures 9 In Texas
OVERTON, Texas (AP) ―
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An elderly driver hurtled through barricades into a crowd lined up for a Christmas parade Monday and injured several people, some of them members of a Cub Scout troop, a city official and witnesses said.
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An elderly driver hurtled through barricades into a crowd lined up for a Christmas parade Monday and injured several people, some of them members of a Cub Scout troop, a city official and witnesses said.
Ten youths and two adults were injured, said Overton City Manager B.J. Potts. The driver was arrested, but alcohol was not detected, he said.
"It happened very quickly," Potts said. "There's still a lot of questions."
John Moore, a spokesman for Mother Frances Hospital in nearby Tyler, told The Associated Press that eight people were being evaluated there.
Potts said that one youth was flown to a Dallas hospital and that several had been released from hospitals, but he did not have an exact number.
One of the injured boys and his mother told KLTV in Tyler that the injured came from a Cub Scout troop.
Eleven-year-old Toby Melton talked to the station after being released from the hospital for a knee injury. His mother, Nancy Melton, said the scene was chaotic as parents rushed to find their children.
A dispatcher with the police office said the department would not give out any information until Tuesday morning.
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