Three individuals, together with a baby and a girl in a wheelchair, have been injured Monday when a minivan drove on streets closed for a Native American pageant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Metropolis spokesperson Michelle Moyer mentioned the individuals have been hospitalized in unknown situation. The incident occurred on the ultimate day of an annual three-day celebration, Kipona Competition, that highlights the area’s Native American roots.
“A girls went round and thru obstacles blocking visitors” for the pageant, Moyer mentioned in a press release. “She hit a girl in a wheelchair and a baby. One in every of our public works staff was additionally injured attempting to cease the girl.”
NBC affiliate WGAL of Harrisburg reported that the automobile went for six blocks earlier than it stopped. It occurred alongside Entrance Avenue, Moyer mentioned, the place meals vans, distributors and carnival sport cubicles have been arrange, in keeping with a map of the occasion.
The motive force was taken into custody, Moyer mentioned.
Photographs from the aftermath of the incident verified by NBC Information present a broken minivan stopped on a block cordoned off for cubicles which can be a part of the celebration.
It wasn’t instantly clear why the van drove onto the closed road.
The metropolis mentioned it was the 109th annual Kipona Competition.
A Kipona Competition webpage describes the occasion: “This annual custom brings collectively Native American communities from varied tribes to have a good time and showcase their cultures via dance, music, storytelling, crafts, and meals.”
Competition organizers didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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