I'm really saddened and outraged by this. A man in a white van targetted several parents walking with their children. One woman, Karina Menzies, has died and two of her children were also hit and, as far as I know, are both in intensive care. Tragically, her other child is disabled and is on a dream holiday to Florida and doesn't even know that her mum is dead.

Taken from news sources:

"The incident involved a white van over 30 minutes of chaos at school pick-up time on Friday. Police have revealed that people were also assaulted outside the van, possibly with a weapon."

"The youngest to be injured was a 23-month-old toddler while the oldest was a 49-year-old woman. There were five different crash sites spread over an area of about 3 miles."

"Police have released details of the 14 victims:

Crossways, Ely: Boy, aged nine, arm and leg injuries; girl, eight, head injury; woman, 29, walking wounded

Reptile Centre, Ely: Woman, 22, leg injuries; girl, two, facial injuries; man, 24, minor injuries

Ely fire station: Woman, named locally as Karina Menzies, 32, killed; girl, 23 months, observations only; girl, eight, head injury

Grand avenue shops: Man, 32, multiple injuries; girl, 10, arm injury; girl, 12, back injury

Leckwith retail park: Woman, 27, head injury; woman, 49, multiple injuries"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-20012446

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20014598

There's a reason I don't feel safe when I leave my front door... :/

What the flying fuck. This schmuck needs to be drawn and quartered. What in hell would prompt someone to do something like this?

My first thought was 'OH MY GOD ARE ALL THE DOCTOR WHO CAST AND CREW OKAY?!?!?!??'

But other than that, yeah...this is one of those people that really needs a good old-fashioned ass kicking. Maybe run his dumb ass over with a car too, see how he likes it. Generally I'm not an 'eye for an eye' sort of person, but this guy's fucked up.

And I'm still worrying about the Doctor Who people...:(

God there are some serious sickos in this world. I literally don't even want to know what possessed him to do this. It's just gruesome. Please just throw him in jail.

well i wont be leaving the house any time soon :S I live about 30mins from cardiff... Ugh. I feel so sorry for that poor kid on holiday though :( as well as all of the other victims.

- My boyfriend's over in Cardiff at the moment, he went there to see the Doctor Who convention. I'd have been worried sick if he was there when it was all happening, but thankfully he went today. I just can't imagine how many lives have been ruined by this man.

Lucky. I would love to be at that convention. T_T Do you both live near Cardiff then? I'm stuck in the states. insert pouty face here

- We don't live near Cardiff, but since we're in the UK, it only takes a few hours to get there by car. Yay for being a small island lol.

This is just awful. All those kids... and for one to be away and not even know yet, oh just awful. Who targets kids ? They're just kids. Theres no reason for this, none. Awful :( I hope the person responsible is punished and has vans run him down every day.

This makes me furious, why the hell is whoever this is doing this?! And to target children.... ugh this is why I believe in the death penalty.