Three people, including a child and a woman, were wounded on a wheelchair, on Monday when a small car closed on the streets at an original American festival in Harrispurg, Pennsylvania.
The city spokeswoman Michel Muir said people had been transferred to the hospital in unknown condition. The accident occurred on the last day of the three -day celebration, the KiPona Festival, highlighting the roots of the original American region.
“Women revolve through the barriers that prevent traffic” for the festival, “Muir said in a statement. “A woman has hit a wheelchair and a child. One of our public works employees was also injured in an attempt to stop the woman.”
Affiliated with NBC Wgal from Harrispurg I mentioned that the car went for six blocks before stopping. This happened along the Front Street Street, where food trucks, sellers and carnival folds were created, According to the event map.
Muir said the driver was detained.
Pictures showed by the NBC News accident that a small, damaged bus stopped on a cordoned bloc of the cabins that formed part of the celebration.
It was not immediately clear why the truck led to the closed street.
the He said the city It was the annual KiPona Festival 109.
A The KiPona Festival website describes the event: “This annual tradition brings together the original American societies of various tribes to celebrate and display their cultures through dance, music, stories, crafts and food.”
The festival organizers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.