One person was killed and 13 others injured, including a toddler, after a vehicle crashed into a child’s birthday party being held on the lawn of a Maryland home Saturday night, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident occurred around 10:15 p.m. on Saturday in a residential neighborhood in Bladensburg, Maryland, a few miles northeast of the nation’s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of those injured, eight were children, ranging in age from 1 to 17 years old, and six adults, including the deceased victim, the Bladensburg Police Department said in a statement<\/a> Sunday afternoon, amending an earlier statement<\/a> that put the total number of people injured at 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A vehicle that traveled from the area of Annapolis Road struck several individuals that were gathered in front of the residence for a child’s birthday party,” according to the earlier police statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prince George’s County Fire and EMS Department said in a social media post Saturday evening that of the 11 people taken to the hospital, nine were juveniles, including “1 infant.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “1 juvenile female & 1 infant transported in critical condition,” according to the Prince George’s County Fire and EMS Department post. The other victims have “serious but not life-threatening injuries,” according to the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seven of the victims were taken to Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.; three were being treated at Capital Regional Medical Center near Landover, Maryland; and one was being cared for at Howard University Hospital, according to the police\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0earlier Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Police Sunday afternoon said that one of the victims, whom they identified as 31-year-old Ashley Hernandez Gutierrez of Washington, D.C., had died of her injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The driver of the vehicle initially fled the scene on foot Saturday night, according to police, but turned himself in on Sunday. Police identified him as a 66-year-old male from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Consultation with the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney is underway and criminal charges are pending against the driver,” according to the police statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Six of the juvenile victims have been treated and released” from the hospital, according to police, while “one has been admitted and is in stable condition.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Three adult victims have been admitted to the hospital and are in stable condition, one is pending treatment, and one has been released,” the police statement further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n