Young girl among multiple people accidentally struck by Shriner at Canonsburg 4th of July parade
A woman, who was also hit, told KDKA-TV that she and her family were watching the parade, and that's when one of the Shriners lost control of their motorbike as they were trying to avoid a parade staff member who was standing in the parade route.
As the person swerved, they ended up in the path of the woman's family. They ultimately ran over her foot and hit the young girl in front of her.
The woman recalled the moment it happened, saying that it happened so fast.
"We ended up calling 911, my sister did," she recalled. "They came over, and we were all trying to apply pressure to her head because she was bleeding. Paramedics came over, they did end up taking her to the hospital, and then they came over, they looked at my foot, they were trying to get me to go to the hospital, I wouldn't."
In a post on social media, the little girl's mother said that she has received treatment and is expected to be OK.
Canonsburg 4th of July Parade grows into a massive tradition
What started as chairs on a sidewalk in Canonsburg quickly turned into a sea of stars and stripes as the annual Fourth of July parade kicked off on Friday.
Now in its 62nd year, the Canonsburg parade has become a generational reunion.
"My dad was involved for over 50 years. I want to carry on this tradition for this town, put on this celebration, not just to make him proud, but continue this for this town," said parade chair Bethany Ludwin.
"It just grew into a big giant family and friend function," said Joseph Graff.
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That day, when she could not get a train at Euston, she was directed to the No 30 bus and sat in the middle of the top deck, next to another female commuter. She said: "I asked her if I could sit with her, and I sat down and people were just chatting about what they thought was going on. It was quite calm." Then, as the double-decker approached Tavistock Square at 9.47am on Thursday the bomb exploded - ripping off the roof and splitting the side panels. Mangled wreckage and bodies were strewn across the road after the bus exploded - and harrowing images taken of the decimated bus have become etched in the memory of millions. "I just remember the light fading, which must have been the end of the flash," Lisa told ITV News. "As I looked up and looked around, the roof of the bus had gone and you could feel things coming over the back of your head - dust and smoke. "Everybody in front of us started to stand up and gaze around and everybody was just bewildered. People were screaming and shouting. There were sirens going off. "It was chaos, but it was very still standing on the top of the bus and looking around. She saved my life, the girl I sat next to really, when I chose to sit with her." Lisa, who had just arrived at King's Cross for a meeting in the capital, added: "It was almost like it had always been like that and you had just been put in the middle of it and you couldn't understand how it had got like that. "It was very eerie and very surreal, and just bewildering. The smell was awful. I have never smelt anything like it - just burning metal, and it took hours and hours, the smell didn't really go away until Friday. It was horrible." Lisa added that she thought people instinctively knew the explosion had been a bomb but did not realise it was on the bus. But she said that, unusually, people had been talking to strangers before the explosion because they had heard about the disruption to the Tube and were trying to work out what was going on. (Image: PA) After the blast, Lisa and other shaken survivors climbed down by the stairwell and ran into a nearby office building, but then were told to move by police. In reflection, she said: "I'll never worry about silly things again. It just makes you realise how lucky you are to be alive." Fears also grew for a party from Longfield Road School in Darlington, now known as Longfield Academy, who were in the capital for a theatre visit. But, a spokesman at Longfield Road School said the coach party had not been near the explosion areas and everyone headed home early as a precaution. A group of 44 pupils from King John's RC School in Bishop Auckland also cut short a two day visit and returned to County Durham. Walking wounded leaving Edgware Road tube station to be treated at the London Hilton Metropole on Edgware Road. (Image: EDMOND TERAKOPIAN) More than 770 people were injured and 52 people tragically died in the attacks. In the weeks and months that followed, the four attackers were identified as Hasib Hussain, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Germaine Lindsay and Shehzad Tanweer. Leeds man Hussain, 18, was behind the Tavistock Square attack that killed 13 people. Thirty-year-old Khan, of Dewsbury, detonated his device at Edgeware Road, killing six. Behind the deadliest attack, at Russell Square, was 19-year-old Lindsay from London - who killed 26 people with his device that exploded just after it pulled out of King's Cross station. Tanweer detonated his device on a train between Liverpool Street and Aldgate. The 22-year-old, from Bradford, killed seven people. All four men died when they detonated their devices. Read more about the July 7 attacks: BBC to air documentary series about response to July 7 London bombings Family's anguish at 7/7 inquest evidence Ten years after terror struck London Two decades on, London and indeed the country has not forgotten the July 7 attacks. A memorial service will be held in Hyde Park at 11.15am today where a memorial stands to those who lost their lives. It will be live streamed online. Fifty-two steel plinths stand on the east side of the park - one for each victim.
