The 77-year-old driver was taken into custody, but police said no charges have been filed and the investigation is continuing. Wilton Manors Vice Mayor Paul Rolli and Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said on Sunday the early investigation shows it was an accident. The white pick-up truck was lined up with other floats for the parade when it accelerated and ran into pedestrians before crashing into a plant nursery, Local 10 News said. The incident happened at the start of the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade and festival, an LGBTQ celebration in a town near Fort Lauderdale. A member of a men’s chorus group unintentionally drove a pick-up truck into fellow chorists at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida on Saturday, killing one member of the group and seriously injuring another, the group’s director has said, correcting initial speculation that it was a hate crime directed at the gay community.
