The dri­ver sus­pect­ed of at­tempt­ed mur­der for plough­ing in­to a crowd of Liv­er­pool soc­cer fans cel­e­brat­ing their team’s Pre­mier League cham­pi­onship was or­dered held an ad­di­tion­al day for ques­tion­ing, po­lice said Wednes­day.

Sev­en peo­ple re­mained hos­pi­talised in sta­ble con­di­tion, as the num­ber of wound­ed was in­creased to near­ly 80 peo­ple, Mersey­side Po­lice said. That num­ber has near­ly dou­bled since Mon­day as po­lice learned of ad­di­tion­al in­juries.

The city had been cel­e­brat­ing Liv­er­pool’s record-ty­ing 20th ti­tle when the dri­ver turned down a street that was closed to traf­fic and rammed in­to a sea of fans, trans­form­ing a day of joy in­to a cat­a­stro­phe.

Po­lice said the 53-year-old British man in cus­tody is al­so sus­pect­ed of be­ing high on drugs and dri­ving dan­ger­ous­ly. They be­lieve he dodged a road­block by fol­low­ing an am­bu­lance that was rush­ing to treat some­one of a sus­pect­ed heart at­tack.

The dri­ver has not been iden­ti­fied, which is typ­i­cal in Britain when a sus­pect has not been charged with a crime.

Po­lice had to get an ex­ten­sion to hold the man longer than 48 hours and will have to ei­ther charge him with a crime by Thurs­day evening or set him free.

LIV­ER­POOL, Eng­land (AP) —