Several people were injured Sunday night when a auto drove onto a dance floor at an outdoor concert in Parma Heights, a suburb south of Cleveland.
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The accident happened on Sunday night at Parma Heights, just south of Cleveland, Ohio when the woman was reversing out of a auto park, police say.
The concert had more than 100 attendees and nine people were injured, with two critically injured and taken to local hospitals.
She seriously injured two of the victims, whose ages ranged from 50 to 70 years old, as she tried to leave a parking lot shared with the Parma Heights police and fire headquarters.
This photo provided by WEWS-TV shows the cordoned site where a vehicle slammed into a crowd at an outdoor concert in Parma Heights, south of Cleveland on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
She was trying to back out of the parking spot when she put her foot on the gas, police said.
The 74-year-old woman, who wasn’t identified, could face charges including reckless driving, vehicular assault and vehicular homicide, Parma Heights police Sgt. Steve Scharschmidt said.
A driver slammed into a crowd of people who were attending an outdoor concert in OH and as a result, the vehicle injured nine people.
She was pulling out of a parking space next to the dance floor when she got confused and pushed down on the gas rather than the brake, plowing into the crowd, Cleveland.com reported.
“We had an officer inside who had heard all the people screaming and he went out the front door”, Scharschmidt said.
In total five people were sent to MetroHealth Medical Center and one to University Hospitals Parma, while three – including the driver – were treated at the scene.
While the investigation in OH is now going on, charges have not been filed at this time.
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Even the driver was “shaken up”, police said.
