Thirteen people have been injured after a car plowed through a crowd in front of a bar in the French commune of Vinzelles, in the Saone-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France, informed the prefecture of the Saone-et-Loire department.

"Doctors examined 16 people, 12 of them were found to have minor injuries; three of them are in shock. A young girl was seriously injured in the leg, but her life is not in danger," reads the respective press release.

According to the authorities, the incident took place around midnight. After an argument between several customers of the aforesaid bar, "the car ran over the people in front of the establishment."

Police who arrived at the scene and arrested the driver, who was drunk.

The reason for the argument is not specified.