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FRANCE

11 hurt after car hits crowd at kite festival

Eleven people were injured, four seriously, after a car plowed into a crowd at an international kite-flying festival in northern France on Saturday, officials said. The accident was caused by a 76-year-old driver who "confused the accelerator and brake pedals", a statement from the local prosecutor's office said. The accident happened in the early evening at the seaside town of Berck-sur-Mer where hundreds of thousands of people gather each year for the festival. Four women were being treated for life-threatening head injuries in intensive care, the emergency services and local officials said. The driver, who suffered minor injuries in the accident, faces a possible charge of causing injuries unintentionally.