Two Children Dead After A Vehicle Crashed In To Their Classroom (Photos)

 

 

Two 8-year-old boys died and multiple children were injured after a car ploughed into a primary school classroom in Sydney. The four-wheel drive Toyota was in the car park of Banksia Road school when it suddenly speed through the wall of a temporary classroom at around 9.45am.

It was packed with 24 children aged between 9 and 11-years-old at the time, police said. Several builders who were working nearby heard the huge crash and rushed to the scene where they managed to lift the car and remove children trapped underneath. They performed CPR for several minutes before paramedics arrive. Two boys suffered cardiac arrest and were rushed to hospital in a critical condition. Confirming the tragic news they had died, New South Wales Police said in a statement: “After 9.45am, emergency services were called to a school on Boronia Road, after a Toyota Kluger left the road and crashed into a classroom in which children were being taught.

“Two boys, aged eight, were critically injured. “They were taken to Westmead Children’s Hospital where they were pronounced deceased. “Two eight-year-old girls were taken to Westmead Children’s Hospital in a stable condition, and one nine-year-old girl was taken to hospital in a serious condition. “There were 17 children and one adult female teacher assessed at the scene. “There were 24 children in the classroom at the time. The female driver of the car, aged 52, was uninjured.

 “She has been taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine tests.” A crime scene has been established and police are investigating. It remains unclear what caused the vehicle to leave the road. But Acting Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith said: “We’re not looking this as an intentional act. “It is a crash investigation. “We have a 52-year-old local woman who is with police at this time. She’s cooperating with blood and urine testing and the processes that accompany that investigation.” Some witnesses have said the woman somehow ended up in the back seat of the car and was screaming “Help me, help me!”

Police escorted multiple ambulances to and from the scene as injured children are taken to hospital. Images shown on 9 News Sydney showed where the Toyota came crashing into the classroom. One father told the Daily Telegraph how he joined in the efforts to lift the car off a little boy with a gash on in his head. “He was saying ‘I want my mum’. She wouldn’t have got to see him before he died,” the man said tearfully.

Superintendent Stephanie Radnidge from New South Wales Ambulance Service said paramedics encountered “a scene of carnage”. She said: “[There were] a number of distressed and overwhelmed children and teachers at a scene of a horrible accident. “Obviously they were crying, they were distressed, some were asking for their parents, that’s a natural response in such a terrible set of circumstances.”

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Mirror