Dozens injured as elderly man ploughs car into US town parade It happened around 2.30pm during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus. The car appeared to come from a side street, and a thud could be heardas people shouted "Stop!." Witnesses said the car had a disabled parking sticker. "He was hitting hikers," said Vickie Harmon, a witness from Damascus. I saw hikers just go everywhere. Damascus resident Amanda Puckett, who was watching the parade with her children, ran to the car, where she and others lifted the car off those pinned underneath. "Everybody just threw our hands up on the car and we just lifted the car up," she said. Keith Neumann, a hiker from South Carolina, said he was part of the group that scrambled around the car. They pushed the car backward to free a woman trapped underneath and lifted it off the ground to make sure no one else was trapped. Another person jumped inside to put the car in park. There's no single heroes. We're talking about a group effort of everybody jumping in," he said. Steve Webb, who helps run a backpacking and outfitters store in town, said amateur video footage he saw of the accident showed "the car coming up behind the hikers and running through them," adding that the car appeared to have pulled around an ambulance before ploughing into the crowd.