Eleven people, including an infant and eight other children, were seriously injured on Saturday night when a car crashed into a tent during a child’s birthday party in a residential neighborhood near Washington, D.C.
The crash occurred around 10:15 p.m. in the 4100 block of 56th Avenue in Bladensburg, Maryland, just a few miles northeast of the nation’s capital.
Authorities said the victims, ranging in age from two to nine years old, were gathered in front of a home when the vehicle struck the tent. “A vehicle that traveled from the area of Annapolis Road struck several individuals that were gathered in front of a residence for a child’s birthday party,” the Bladensburg Police Department said in a statement .
Victims taken to multiple hospitals
The injured were taken to multiple hosp