Horrifying footage captured the moment a scooter rider accidentally throttled his motorbike into a crowd of people in Paris on 12 June 2019.

At Place de l'Opéra, the driver of a scooter is waiting on a red light when he gets off to check something near the front wheels.

As he does so, the bike falls and he tries to save it from crashing to the ground by grabbing it.

Unfortunately he grabs the nearest part of the handlebar to him -- the throttle -- which jerks the bike forwards.

Intuitively trying to keep hold of the bike as it races towards pedestrians, he clings on, which only has the effect of thrusting the bike through the crowd.

By the time he finally lets go of the throttle and the bike, he has left a trail of injured people.

At Place de l'opéra in Paris, the driver of a scooter is waiting on a red light. While he is getting off his scooter to checks something near the front wheels, he loses balance and tries to recover it by grabbing the throttle trigger. The scooter accelerates immediatly and crash into pedestrians.