The parents of a girl seen limping after a Land Rover crashed into a school in Wimbledon looked “absolutely shell-shocked”.
Seven children and two adults were injured in the crash – with one child seen by the Sky News team on the scene being carried away with a cut to her leg.
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Sky News’ Jacquie Beltrao said a police officer told her “an out of control vehicle” was involved in what police have described as a “serious collision” at The Study Preparatory School on Camp Road, in Wimbledon.
“We have certainly seen one child walk out of here limping, carried by both of her parents supporting her,” she said.
“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.
