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Newly surfaced footage shows police dragging the Liverpool driver from his car moments after he tore into the crowd celebrating the 20th Premier League title.
The 53-year-old is accused to have been under the influence of drugs when he crashed his vehicle through the parade, wounding 65 people, including four children.
Fans were seen being catapulted into the air, with some trapped under the wheels of the grey Ford Galaxy.
Screams filled the air as bystanders scrambled to help the victims, while others shouted for emergency services.
In the video, police were seen swarming the vehicle and dragging the man out.
The suspect is said to have tailgated an ambulance racing to a person who was suffering a heart attack before unleashing horror on the city’s streets.
Assistant chief constable Jenny Sims said: ‘It is believed the driver of the Ford Galaxy car involved in this incident was able to follow an ambulance onto Water Street after the road block was temporarily lifted so that the ambulance crew could attend to a member of the public who was having a heart attack.’
She added: ‘There was no intelligence to suggest an incident of this nature would take place.’
Detective chief superintendent Karen Jaundrill said there was a total of 65 confirmed casualties following the incident.
More than 50 people, including children, were treated in different hospitals and 11 people remained there on Tuesday in a stable condition.
Another video shared with Metro exclusively showed the man – identified as a white British male only – driving into the crowd ‘deliberately’.
Radoslav Stamboliev, who filmed the clip, said he thought the driver was ‘coming straight for us deliberately, completely straight faced’ and said there were children ‘everywhere’.
On Tuesday, a Liverpool fan described how he ‘locked eyes’ with the driver and ‘pleaded for him to stop’ moments before the car crashed into him.
Jack Trotter was enjoying celebrating his team’s success when he found himself ‘face to face’ with the vehicle.
The stricken Northern Irishman was helped by fellow fans and locals into a nearby pub until emergency services arrived to take him to hospital.
The 22-year-old escaped without serious injury and has been discharged from hospital.
He said: ‘He had slowed down. And then I put my hands up and pleaded for him to stop, and he wasn’t stopping.’
Asked about his injuries, Jack said: ‘My legs aren’t broken, which is good. It’s just my left leg where it was hit is just a good bit tender.
‘My back’s got slipped disks. I just recovered from a back injury… It’s just brought it back, but 10 times worse.’
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