The poor weather conditions threatened the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year, but it went on nonetheless. Balloon handler, Keri O’Connell, was taken to a nearby hospital due to an injury completely unrelated to the windy weather conditions.
O’Connell, 39, who was volunteering to be in the parade, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital after someone riding a golf cart to pull the Buzz Lightyear float ran over her foot.
Daily News notes the incident happened near W. 75th St. and Central Park West around 10:30am.
She explained, “We were having the most fantastic time. Everything was wonderful. All of a sudden I was on the ground in intense pain. I started screaming because no one was doing anything. I kept saying, ‘Move the car! Get it off of me!’ ”
O’Connell added that she and her aunt had been looking forward to volunteering in the parade “for months.” But when she was finally freed from the golf cart, she was placed right next to the driver who ran her over and he did not apologize.
“He did not look at me. He did not speak to me. He did not ask me how I was. He did not apologize,” she said.
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