At least 28 people were injured when a vehicle plowed into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade in the Mid-City section of New Orleans.
The Times-Picayune said the crash was reported at about 6:45pm on Saturday as the city prepared for the Mardi Gras celebrations.
Officials said 28 people, including a police officer, were taken to seven hospitals.
Police chief Michael Harrison said one person was in custody and that he was being investigated for driving while intoxicated. Harrison said police do not suspect terrorism.
He said that 21 people were hospitalised after the crash and five were in a critical condition. Seven others declined to be hospitalised.
Images and video from the scene were posted on social media showing police and paramedics.
Witness Greg McNeely told the Times Picayune he was watching the parade when a pick-up truck sped through the intersection and came to rest against a rubbish bin.
Several people, including a police officer, were pinned underneath the truck, he said.
“He took out rows of people,” McNeely said.
One woman at the scene told The New Orleans Advocate that a silver truck whisked by her just feet away as she was walking through the intersection.
Carrie Kinsella said, “I felt a rush it was so fast.”
Twenty-year-old Kourtney McKinnis told the Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done.
“He was just kind of out of it,” she said.
Associated Press contributed to this report
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New Orleans: dozens injured after 'pickup truck' ploughs into parade crowd
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