A driver slammed a car into a crowd celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League victory, seriously injuring a child and an adult and sending more than two dozen people to hospitals, officials in England said Monday.

The crash created chaos at the end of a festive day in which hundreds of thousands of sports fans had gathered for a parade through the Liverpool city enter to celebrate their team.

Nearly 50 people were injured, the police said. Four of those were children, the North West Ambulance Service said, including one with serious injuries.

Nick Searle, chief fire officer for the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, said at a news conference on Monday night that three adults and one child had been pulled from underneath the vehicle and sent to a hospital.

Overall, a total of 27 people were taken to four hospitals by ambulance, officials said, adding that 20 others were treated at the scene, and more were showing up at local emergency departments.

Police said the driver, a “53-year-old white British man” from the Liverpool area, had been detained at the scene.

— The New York Times