Our story on Merseyside police being granted more time to question the suspected driver of a car which ploughed into a crowd at Liverpool’s victory parade is here:

Messages of support have been sent to the people of Liverpool since the incident, including from the King who said: “I know that the strength of community spirit for which your city is renowned will be a comfort and support to those in need.”

The Prince and Princess of Wales also said they were “deeply saddened” by the parade crash, adding: “What should have been a joyful celebration ended with tragedy.”

Officers are scouring CCTV footage to piece together the Ford Galaxy’s movements before the incident, Det Supt Rachel Wilson said in a statement released by Merseyside police.

She said:

I’m pleased to say that the number of people in hospital is reducing as they continue to recover from the awful incident. We continue to support those still receiving treatment and as part of our ongoing enquiries we are identifying more people who were injured.

I want to reassure the public of Merseyside that detectives are making significant progress as we seek to establish the full circumstances that led to what happened.

In addition, extensive CCTV enquiries are being carried out across the city to establish the movements of the car, a Ford Galaxy, before the incident took place.

We have already had an incredible response from many of those who were there on the day, and I thank them for their co-operation with our investigation.

I would encourage anyone who has not yet contacted police who may have information on this incident to do so. An extensive investigation into the precise circumstances of the incident is ongoing, and we continue to ask people not to speculate on the circumstances surrounding the incident and refrain from sharing distressing content online.

At least 65 people were reported to have been injured in Monday’s collision, as of Tuesday. We are still waiting for updates on the 11 people who were confirmed yesterday to be in hospital recovering in a stable condition.

Dale Street, which later leads to Water Street where the collision happened, has reopened.

According to the Liverpool Echo, most of the streets leading on to Dale Street were blocked by police while enquiries into the incident were being conducted.

Andy Hunter is a football correspondent for the Guardian based in Liverpool

Arne Slot pulled out of the League Managers Association’s annual awards dinner in London on Tuesday after the appalling incident at the end of Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade.

The Liverpool head coach was due to receive the LMA’s and the Premier League’s manager of the year awards at the event for winning the title in his first season in English football. However, in light of the incident in Liverpool city centre on Monday, when 65 people were injured when a car drove into a crowd on Water Street, Slot and a senior delegation of Liverpool officials decided they should not attend.

Liverpool cancelled all internal events after the incident and Slot felt it would be inappropriate to celebrate his achievements at the dinner. He sent a letter of apology to the LMA and event organisers in which he expressed his sadness at the horrific scenes that followed Liverpool’s trophy parade through the city.

Slot wrote:

As you will know, a shocking incident took place in Liverpool yesterday, one that left dozens of men, women and children who had attended our parade injured and as a result I have had to withdraw from the event out of solidarity with all affected. This is not a decision I have taken lightly but it is one that I feel is absolutely right given the seriousness of the situation. I hope that I have your understanding in this regard.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the wider football community, including the LMA itself, the Premier League and many clubs who will be represented tonight, for the support we have received over the last 24 hours. Football is and always should be a game built on rivalry, but it is also a great source of comradeship, especially at times like this.

The Be Free campaign, a Liverpool-based charity supporting young people’s mental health, has said it will be running a “mental health and wellbeing session” for children and young people with symptoms of anxiety or “stress” caused by Monday’s events.

“Sessions will be free to attend without the need of a referral,” it said in a post on Instagram, in which the charity expressed “deep concern” about the images and videos circulating online from the collision.

“These images and the event may cause distress to children and young people who may have viewed them or were in attendance.”

Here is an extract from our interview with former superintendent Dal Babu, who welcomed the decision to name the ethnicity and nationality of the suspect in the Liverpool incident, but said doing so in future could raise challenges for forces going forward.

Babu stressed the decision had been “correct” to share the information on this occasion to combat “racist and Islamophobic misinformation” on social media, while warning that every decision should be taken on a case by case basis.

“You could imagine a situation where the far right will say, ‘Oh, you haven’t named the ethnicity of this person and that’s because they are a person of colour’,” he said.

“It’s really important that people don’t see it as a precedent because every incident will be different. People may feel in a future incident that they’re entitled to know the ethnicity and race, and it may not be appropriate to release it,” he said.

A senior legal source said there could be circumstances where naming the ethnicity of a suspect could cause riots rather than quell them.

“What will a force do if they arrest someone in similar circumstances who is recently arrived on a small boat or who has a clearly Muslim name? They will now be under huge pressure to name them,” the source said.

There has been talk around Merseyside Police’s unusual decision to publicly release the ethnicity (white) and nationality (British) of the alleged driver of the car that ploughed into football fans during Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade on Monday.

Merseyside police said they arrested a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area about two hours after the incident that left dozens of people, including four children, injured.

The decision shows lessons may have been learned in the wake of the Southport attacks last year, when speculation about the identity of the suspect behind the stabbings had been rampant on social media and filled a void left by Merseyside police releasing few details about the 17-year-old they had in custody.

Usually when a suspect is arrested, police forces in England and Wales only reveal the person’s age and where they were arrested.