A driver plowed his car into a Mardi Gras parade in Alabama on Tuesday, injuring 12 members of a high school marching band, four of them critically, officials said. The 73-year-old man accelerated his SUV into the Gulf Shores High School band in the city of Gulf Shores, a beach resort 30 miles west of Pensacola, Florida, city spokesman Grant Brown told reporters at a news conference. “A teenage band has just started to march down the parade route when they were struck from behind,” he said. “Every indication is that it was a tragic accident by an elderly man,” Gulf Shores Police Chief Ed Delmore told the press briefing. City officials investigating the incident have canceled the parade and closed part of a highway and several roads.

Source: Hindustan Times March 01, 2017 02:02 UTC