'Absolutely shell-shocked' parents carry limping girl away from Wimbledon school crash scene
A girl, 8, has died and 10 people were taken to hospital after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in southwest London.
Thursday 6 July 2023 16:45, UK
The parents of a girl seen limping after a Land Rover crashed into a school in Wimbledon looked "absolutely shell-shocked", before an eight-year-old girl was confirmed to have died in the incident.
A total of 16 people were treated on site and 10 were taken to hospital.
One child seen by the Sky News team on the scene was being carried away with a cut to her leg.
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Sky News' Jacquie Beltrao was at The Study Preparatory School on Camp Road, in Wimbledon, and said: "We have certainly seen one child walk out of here limping, carried by both of her parents supporting her.
"They looked absolutely shell-shocked, and couldn't speak. I just said: 'Are you okay?' And her dad nodded his head.
"The child couldn't speak at all.
"They couldn't tell us what had happened.
"He shook his head again - looked absolutely shocked."
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Beltrao said the small private girls' school is set in a "beautiful location" overlooking the Wimbledon Common and a golf course.
"It is not what you expect to happen round here," she said.
"It's nowhere near a main road, it's right in the middle of Wimbledon Common, just a mile or so away from the tennis."
She described a "massive" response with at least 20 ambulances, an air ambulance and firefighters at the scene.