The World - News from Nov. 14, 1988
A car went out of control and crashed into marchers in a parade honoring Britain’s war dead, injuring 17 people, several seriously, police in Birmingham said. The Remembrance Day parade, with participants from the British Legion, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, was approaching St. Margaret’s Church for a memorial when the unidentified driver tried to pass the marchers. Birmingham’s Remembrance Day ceremony was one of dozens observed around the country honoring those who died in the two world wars and the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina. At a ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, several thousand people also remembered the 11 civilians killed by an IRA bomb blast at last year’s memorial service.
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