The truck driver who killed 84 people after ploughing through Bastille Day crowds in Nice “zig-zagged” through crowds to inflict maximum damage, according to witnesses.
Terrified people fled the Promenade des Anglais after a truck driver swerved into spectators at high speed during celebrations.
Witnesses at the scene reported fleeing for their lives as the truck driver swerved from side-to-side down the road in a deliberate attempt to hit people
An eye witness told i-Tele: "We almost died. It was like hallucinating... (the lorry) zigzagged - you had no idea where it was going. My wife ... a metre away ... she was dead.
"The lorry ripped through everything ... poles, trees.
"We have never seen anything like it. Some people were hanging on the door and tried to stop it."
Witness Tony Molina watched the chaos unfold from his hotel room on the promenade.
He told CNN: "There was still a crowd of people and then you just see this big white panel truck, I couldn't see the driver, but it just kept going at different angles from left to right at 25 to 30 miles and hour.
"People were screaming and running.
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"There are still people I am looking at right now that are near their deceased family members.
"I work in homicide and I've never seen anything like this. It's unbelievable."
The driver of the truck was shot dead after opening fire on police and an anti-terror investigation has been launched.
Nice Matin journalist Damien Allemand, who was at the waterside, said the display had finished and the crowd had got up to leave when they heard a noise and cries.
"A fraction of a second later, an enormous white truck came along at a crazy speed, turning the wheel to mow down the maximum number of people.
"I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route. Heard noises, cries that I will never forget."
