Fans, driver injured in crash at Daytona Speedway

(REUTERS) - At least 12 fans and one driver were injured after a wreck at the Daytona Speedway on Saturday when car debris flew into the crowd near the end of the Nationwide Nascar race.

A hospital official at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida, told the Daytona News Journal that 11 spectators were being treated in the emergency room, with two of them critically injured.

Four of the fans were on trauma alert and five were being treated as non-trauma cases, the newspaper reported.

Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach had one patient from the crash and was expecting three more, spokesman Lindsay Rew said.

Kyle Larson's car (32) goes airborne during a multi-car wreck on the final lap of the Nascar Nationwide Series auto race on Saturday, Feb 23, 2013, at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. -- PHOTO: AP