Public safety
Drone crash injures spectators at Seattle Pride parade
Seattle, United States28 Jun 2015 · event dateapproximate location In short
What happened: public safety at Seattle on 28 June 2015.
Effect: confirmed by the sources.
Was it a drone? Drone presence is confirmed. Who was behind it: a conviction is recorded.
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A drone crashed during Seattle Pride on 28 June 2015 and injured spectators. Police recovered the damaged aircraft. The city later reported a jury conviction for reckless endangerment, with testimony describing a concussion and a separate minor bruise.
Claims and evidence
3 sources · 2 original statements
Sources that repeat the same original statement count once: a number of articles is not a number of independent confirmations.
| Claim | Original source | Assessment |
|---|
| Drone Police received the damaged drone as evidence. Source passage [1]“handed over the damaged drone” Passage checked word for word against the source on 16 Oct 2026. | Seattle Police Department via Seattle Police | supports Short literal passage read on the public source page; reported drone presence is not technical identification. |
| Impact The prosecution described concussion testimony. Source passage [3]“woman who suffered a concussion” Passage checked word for word against the source on 16 Oct 2026. | Seattle City Attorney trial account via Seattle City Attorney | supports Short literal passage read on the public source page; reported drone presence is not technical identification. |
| Attribution The official verdict statement reports a jury conviction. Source passage [3]“jury on Friday convicted” Passage checked word for word against the source on 16 Oct 2026. | Seattle City Attorney via Seattle City Attorney | supports Short literal passage read on the public source page; reported drone presence is not technical identification. |
Source genealogy
Grouped by recorded original statement, not by publisher. Unmapped sources have unknown dependency; linked statements may also share an earlier origin. This is not an independence score.
- Seattle Police Department
- Seattle Police: recovered drone and initial injury investigation [1] · Relayed statement
- Seattle City Attorney / Seattle City Attorney trial account
- Seattle City Attorney: jury verdict and trial testimony [3] · Relayed statement
- Unknown dependency
- GeekWire: court-document reporting and conviction follow-up [2]
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Left: publishers; right: recorded original statement. Converging lines show shared origin, not publication order. Dashed nodes have unknown dependency.
What we know
Police initially reported one spectator knocked unconscious. The later prosecution account describes a concussion and a second spectator with a minor bruise. These are reports from different stages of the same case, not separate events or cumulative counts of three victims.
The initial police investigation and later City Attorney verdict report are original records from the same municipality and count as one publisher family. GeekWire provides separate court-document reporting but also uses the city prosecution account. Shared case evidence is explicit: these are not independent investigations. Recovery of the aircraft and the trial account support confirmed drone involvement.
What remains unknown
The event date is the Sunday preceding the police article of Monday29June2015; conviction follow-up is January2017, not a new incident. The selected verdict statement gives maximum statutory penalties, not an imposed sentence; no sentence length is asserted. No claim about later appeal outcomes, device model or responsible organisation. Private names, victim ages, street addresses and airborne positions are omitted.
Operator attribution: Convicted. The City Attorney reported a jury conviction for reckless endangerment in this incident. A private operator is not named; no organisational or state attribution established. [3]
How the story changed
Drone crashes at Seattle Pride; spectators injured and damaged drone later taken into police evidence. [1]
City Attorney reports jury conviction and injury testimony from the trial. [3]
Editorial changes
- Revision 1 · 16 Oct 2026Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.
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DroneLedger. “Drone crash injures spectators at Seattle Pride parade.” Dossier seattle-pride-parade-drone-injury-2015-06-28, revision 1, updated 16 Oct 2026. https://droneincidents.com/incident/seattle-pride-parade-drone-injury-2015-06-28/v1/
APA
DroneLedger. (16 Oct 2026). Drone crash injures spectators at Seattle Pride parade (Dossier seattle-pride-parade-drone-injury-2015-06-28, revision 1). https://droneincidents.com/incident/seattle-pride-parade-drone-injury-2015-06-28/v1/
Dataset DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23345422
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