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Liverpool fan Stefanie Ryder-Walker was in Water Street when a car ploughed into pedestrians

A woman has described the "utter heroism" of Liverpool fans who fought to try and stop a car injuring more people as it ploughed into crowds on Water Street on Monday.

Stefanie Ryder-Walker was with her fiancé Ellis Matthews, his father and other friends when they were caught up in the horror of Monday's incident.

The 26-year-old described seeing a woman who was right next to her being thrown into the air as she was hit by the Ford Galaxy car, which had emerged from behind an ambulance.

Stefanie told the ECHO: "We had been on The Stand for the parade and we were walking up Water Street after it had finished.

The road was full of people and then we saw an ambulance trying to get through.

"My fiancé's dad and others were telling people to move to the side of the road to let the ambulance through and the crowd parted.

The force said he had effectively tailgated behind the ambulance as it made its way onto the closed-off Water Street to attend to a man suffering a suspected heart attack.

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Stefanie, who is a fourth year dental student at the University of Liverpool, said she and her group had to physically dive out of the way of the oncoming car before witnessing the horrific injuries inflicted on a woman she was stood next to - who she then rushed to help.

Stefanie Ryder-Walker took this image of Water Street around ten minutes before a car ploughed into pedestrians

She said: "A woman who was stood right next to me was hit and thrown up into the air, she hit the bonnet and the windscreen and went over the car, landing on the other side.

I applied pressure and pulled her out of the road before another man came to help her."

At the same time, Ellis and other fans realised the car was continuing along Water Street and hitting others.

It had been a day of fans helping each other out at the parade and it continued when this happened.

"They put their lives on the line to try and stop that vehicle injuring more people, to try and protect each other."

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As Stef and Ellis tried to find the rest of their group, they found Ellis' father on the floor.