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 Pageant, that highlights the area’s Native American roots.
“A ladies 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. Certainly one of our public works workers was additionally injured making an attempt 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 recreation 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 might be a part of the celebration.
It wasn’t instantly clear why the van drove onto the closed avenue.
The metropolis mentioned it was the 109th annual Kipona Pageant.
A Kipona Pageant webpage describes the occasion: “This annual custom brings collectively Native American communities from varied tribes to rejoice and showcase their cultures via dance, music, storytelling, crafts, and meals.”
Pageant organizers didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
