Boy, 11, killed & 4 children injured after car veers off road & crashes into Melbourne primary school as driver arrested

ONE child has died and four have been injured after a car crashed through the fence of a Melbourne primary school.

The car hit where five students were sitting – with an 11-year-old boy taken to hospital with critical injuries where he later died.

One boy was killed after the car ploughed through the fence

AP

The car crashed through the fence as it did a u-turn, police said[/caption]

Two 11-year-old girls, one 10-year-old boy, one 10-year-old girl were also injured.

The tragedy happened after a car veered off the road and struck Auburn South Primary School in Hawthorne East.

A 40-year-old Hawthorn East woman has been arrested and will be interviewed by police, while a primary school-aged child who was a passenger in the vehicle was unharmed. 

Victoria Police Inspector Craig McEvoy said the driver was attempting a U-turn before veering off the road.

McEvoy said it appeared the crash was an accident.

He said the vehicle that crashed through the school fence The Australian equivalent of a P-plate on it.

Inspector McEvoy said: “The ongoing investigation will takes days, weeks, months.”

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