Suspected drunk driver crashes into Michigan birthday party, killing children

Brother and sister, ages five and eight, died after woman, 66, drove 25ft into a building; nine others taken to hospitals with injuries

A young brother and sister died and several people were injured, some of them seriously, when a vehicle driven by a suspected drunken driver crashed into a young child’s birthday party on Saturday at a boat club, a Michigan sheriff said.

An eight-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother died at the scene in the crash, when a 66-year-old woman crashed 25ft into the building at about 3pm at the Swan Creek Boat Club in Berlin Township, about 30 miles (48km) south of Detroit, the Monroe county sheriff, Troy Goodnough, said.