SUV Plows into Alabama Mardi Gras Parade Crowd; High School Band Members Hurt

A dozen high school band members injured in a crash at a Mardi Gras parade in Alabama.

FOX’s Eben Brown reports:

The Gulf Shores High School Marching Band was getting ready to play the Mardi Gras parade in town in Alabama when a parade van into them, injuring 12 members, as young as 12?and as old as?17:

(Delmore) “It was not involving drugs or alcohol. Nor is there any indication that this was an intentional act. Every indication is just that it was a tragic accident by an elderly man.”

Gulf Shores police chief Edward Delmore. Four of the kids are in critical condition. The parade has been cancelled.

Eben Brown, FOX News.

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