{"id":465448,"date":"2025-12-23T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:20:11","slug":"car-hits-people-waiting-to-watch-a-parade-in-a-dutch-town-injuring-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465448\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hits people waiting to watch a parade in a Dutch town, injuring 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">THE HAGUE, Netherlands &#8212; A car drove into a crowd of people waiting to watch a parade in an eastern Dutch town Monday night, injuring nine, at least three of them seriously, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident did not immediately appear to be deliberate, Gelderland police said on social media, but they were investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">People had been waiting to watch a parade of vehicles decorated with Christmas lights in Nunspeet, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Amsterdam. The municipality in nearby Elburg said on social media that the parade was halted after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWhat should have been a moment of solidarity ends in great worry and sadness,\u201d Mayor Jan Nathan Rozendaal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the driver was a 56-year-old woman from Nunspeet who was slightly injured. Police said she was detained \u201cas is usual in a serious traffic accident.\u201d They gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Video from the scene on the website of national broadcaster NOS showed first responders and a small car in a field. The car was damaged and its hood was open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE, Netherlands &#8212; A car drove into a crowd of people waiting to watch a parade in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[211818,347,57,50,52623,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-465448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-211818","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-vehicle-ramming-attacks","13":"tag-world","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}