2 hurt as SUV crashes Camden music festival
A young woman and a 10-year-old girl were injured last night by a speeding SUV that crashed through a barricade at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden during a music festival attended by thousands of people, police said. Neither victim was seriously injured.
A young woman and a 10-year-old girl were injured last night by a speeding SUV that crashed through a barricade at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden during a music festival attended by thousands of people, police said. Neither victim was seriously injured.
The driver, Wilbert Lopez III, 40, of Glassboro, N.J., was charged with drunken driving. Drug charges also were pending, said James D'Angelo, Camden County Park Police chief.
At about 8:30 p.m., D'Angelo said, Lopez plowed his speeding Dodge Durango through a barricade on Martin Luther King Boulevard and into a car waiting to park, slightly injuring the 21-year-old female driver.
The SUV then glanced off a park traffic circle, hit an ice-cream vending cart, destroyed a park bench and struck the 10-year-old girl before continuing down a hill and crashing into a trailer.
The girl was treated at Cooper University Hospital for scrapes, bruises and a possible broken nose, D'Angelo said. The 21-year-old was being evaluated at Cooper last night, he said, for injuries believed to be minor.
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