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Driver crashes pickup truck into 3 people at Christmas parade in California
ny post ^ | Updated Dec. 8, 2023, 3:35 a.m. ET | Richard Pollina

Posted on 12/08/2023 2:03:05 AM PST by RaceBannon

A driver in California has been arrested after he backed his truck into three people moments before a Christmas parade was set to begin Thursday night.

A Ford F-150 pickup truck hit the pedestrians around 5:30 p.m. along the parade route in Downtown Bakersfield, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.

“BPD is conducting an investigation at H St and 21st St which is affecting the original parade route. The Parade Marshall is working to see if rerouting the parade is an option,” the Department posted on X.

Police arrested a 72-year-old man suspected of driving the white Ford truck, according to Bakersfield Now.

The name of the suspect has yet to be released.

Law enforcement said alcohol may be involved.

The three men — whose ages are 21, 42 and 77 — were rushed to a local hospital and are listed in stable condition.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bakersfield; california; christmas; parade; truck

1 posted on 12/08/2023 2:03:05 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: RaceBannon
...A Ford F-150 pickup...
2 posted on 12/08/2023 2:10:31 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

Video of the aftermath

Bakersfield, California - Car drove into a Christmas parade. Multiple people taken to hospital
https://rumble.com/v408mv5-bakersfield-california-car-drove-into-a-christmas-parade.html


3 posted on 12/08/2023 2:13:42 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: All
"suspected of driving the white Ford truck,"

I'm assuming it was a white SUPREMACIST Ford truck.

4 posted on 12/08/2023 2:28:29 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: ComputerGuy

No..a WHITE FORD 150 PICKUP! No name but we know the truck was white


5 posted on 12/08/2023 3:08:57 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RaceBannon

What is it with parade crowds that causes ‘some’ drivers to lose all of their driving skill?


6 posted on 12/08/2023 3:09:28 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: RaceBannon

A 72-year-old man backing up sounds like an accident.


7 posted on 12/08/2023 3:14:53 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: RaceBannon

Daryl Brooks out of the slammer?


8 posted on 12/08/2023 3:15:06 AM PST by dforest
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To: dforest

Brooks is currently serving six consecutive life sentences for his attack on the Waukesha Christmas Parade. But he might get a pardon from Biden.


9 posted on 12/08/2023 3:44:27 AM PST by Brown Deer
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To: RaceBannon

Remember the horrific Christmas parade attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin.- Darrell Brooks belongs to Black Supremacist sect of Islam called ‘The Five Percent Nation’


10 posted on 12/08/2023 3:46:22 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Tax-chick

It does sound like an accident. But if the following from the article is true...

“Law enforcement said alcohol may be involved.”

...that could be the reason for taking the driver into custody.


11 posted on 12/08/2023 4:28:44 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: RaceBannon

Day drinking is apparently a thing in CA


12 posted on 12/08/2023 4:35:26 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: RaceBannon

The title is hyped up, typical lefty journo style.

A pickup backing into three people where the driver is likely intoxicated is not a terrorist grade crime.

The crime appears to be a White F150. “White” making it naturally a terribly racist vehicle. And F150 meaning it spits nasties into the air we breath causing global warming.

We own a Ford F150, blue in color, so maybe we aren’t quite as racist.


13 posted on 12/08/2023 4:40:31 AM PST by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: ComputerGuy
T'is the season...
so sick of this crap.
14 posted on 12/08/2023 5:06:21 AM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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To: Tax-chick

or a rage incident where to many pedestrians that wouldn’t let him exit.


15 posted on 12/08/2023 5:14:45 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Tax-chick

Add alcohol, and a gathering parade crowd....probsbly getting pretty dark st 5:30.


16 posted on 12/08/2023 5:14:46 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: RaceBannon

bkmk


17 posted on 12/08/2023 5:34:24 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: RaceBannon

At least some sNews outlets stopped attributing these incidents to unmanned vehicles and specified that it actually had a driver.

https://www.kbtx.com/2023/12/08/bodies-flying-truck-hits-crowd-waiting-christmas-parade/


18 posted on 12/08/2023 6:02:59 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: RaceBannon

Ban assault F150s.


19 posted on 12/08/2023 6:49:49 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

Should have made it a vehicle free zone.


20 posted on 12/08/2023 8:34:50 AM PST by Do_Tar (All my comments are creative or artistic expression.)
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