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Woman Run Over By Parade Float
December 11, 2016
A Pensacola woman is hospitalized in stable condition after she was run over by a float during the Pensacola Christmas Parade Saturday night.
The incident occurred around 5:40 p.m. near the intersection of Spring and Garden streets.
Officer Tony Garza said Miriam Mims, 59, of Pensacola was at the beginning of the parade route where floats enter Garden Street. She was not behind a barricaded area at the time.
Garza said Mims stepped into the street and bent over to pick up something that had been thrown from a float. As she leaned over, she is believed to have been bumped from behind and fell into the path of a float that was northbound on Spring Street. The float was moving about one to two miles per hour, Garza said.
David Chapman of Spanish Fort, AL, a safety person who was walking with the float, saw Mims fall into the path of the tires. Chapman and Jimmy Fields, who was with Mims, pulled her upper body and head from the path of the float tires. The tires ran over the left side of her torso, Garza said.
The parade was delayed for about 30 minutes during the incident. The incident remains under investigation, Garza said.
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3 Responses to “Woman Run Over By Parade Float”
Quote heard at the scene…….”I just had to have that Tootsie Roll”
She went around the baricades that were set up for safety trying to get some of the “goodies” that were laying on the pavement in front of her. We were on one of the floats behind that one.
People, the baricades are put up for a reason-the persons driving these floats cannot see all corners and sides of the float.
I do hope this person was not seriously injured and will be ok.
Wow right @ Xmas so sad. Just a freak accident!
Hope she has a blessed turn a to around.