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London police say an 8-year-old girl is in “life-threatening condition” in hospital following a car crash at a primary school in the city’s southwest on Thursday that killed another girl of the same age.
Police officers set up a cordon line when a car crashed into a primary school building in Wimbledon, London, on Thursday 6 July 2023. According to London police, a girl died when an SUV drove into a South West London primary school on a very narrow road in the Wimbledon district. The Metropolitan Police on Thursday said further injuries were reported, but did not provide details on how many. (AP photo/Kin Cheung)
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LONDON — London police said on Friday that an 8-year-old is in hospital in “life-threatening condition” following a car crash at a primary school on Thursday that killed another girl the same age.
In an update, the Metropolitan Police also said a woman in her 40s is in critical condition following the crash in Wimbledon, in the southwest of the city.
A Land Rover crashed through a fence on Thursday morning before colliding with a building belonging to the Study Preparatory School for girls aged 4 to 11.
Police said shortly afterwards that the incident, which took place while the children were having an end-of-year party in the garden, was not terror-related.
The Met also said a woman arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail until later this month pending further inquiries. She was also taken to hospital, but her life was not in danger, police said. It is unclear if she is still in the hospital.
Police also said several other people, including a 7-month-old girl, were also taken to hospital and their condition was not assessed as critical. On Thursday, London’s ambulance service said 16 people, including the deceased girl, were treated at the scene for injuries. Ten of them were later hospitalized.
The Met also said it understands the injured school-age children were students at the school and the injured adults were parents or carers, not staff members.
