Woman crushed to death under St. Patrick's Day parade float in front of crowds of spectators

A Kentucky pistillate is dormant aft she was dragged nether a interval and crushed successful beforehand of crowds of revelers during a section St. Patrick’s Day parade implicit the weekend. 

The incidental unfolded astatine the 53rd yearly parade successful Louisville, erstwhile authorities were called to an country adjacent Bardstown Road and Grinstead Drive conscionable earlier 4 p.m. connected Saturday, March 14, implicit reports of a pistillate being struck by a vehicle, according to WLKY. 

A preliminary probe conducted by authorities reportedly revealed the woman, identified arsenic 50-year-old Joan Pannuti, was walking adjacent to a interval erstwhile her ft became caught, causing her to autumn to the crushed and get stuck nether the vehicle. 

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Scenes on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade way connected Bardstown Road successful Louisville, Kentucky, connected Saturday, March 14, 2026.  (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The interval instantly stopped and Pannuti was administered archetypal assistance earlier being transported to a section hospital, wherever she died from her injuries.

Video obtained by WDRB showed the moments instantly aft Pannuti was dragged nether the interval arsenic it was being towed by a metallic motortruck clad successful four-leaf clovers. 

Good Samaritans were seen rushing to Pannuti’s assistance arsenic the radical waited for instrumentality enforcement to arrive. 

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Scenes on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade way connected Bardstown Road successful Louisville, Kentucky, connected Saturday, March 14, 2026.  (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"I seen the EMS attending to somebody… I saw idiosyncratic connected the stretcher, not reasoning it was thing precise serious," nutrient vendor David Gnamba told WAVE.

"It does interruption my bosom due to the fact that that’s a idiosyncratic that mislaid their life," Gnamba added. "This is not quality that we privation to perceive – as quality beings, arsenic vendors, arsenic people, arsenic partygoers."

The parade’s organizers, the Hibernian Cultural and Charitable Association, reportedly released a connection expressing their enactment is "deeply saddened by the tragic accident." 

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Scenes on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade way connected Bardstown Road successful Louisville, Kentucky, connected Saturday, March 14, 2026.  (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Additionally, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg called for prayers for the unfortunate and her loved ones successful a societal media post.

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"I americium truthful atrocious to perceive astir the tragic mishap that took a woman’s beingness astatine today’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade," Greenberg said. "Please articulation Rachel and maine successful keeping her household and friends successful your prayers. May her representation beryllium a blessing." 

The Louisville Metro Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.