Mother’s car ploughs through school fence in Australia, killing 1

The 40-year-old mother had collected a child from the Auburn South Primary School in Melbourne and was making a U-turn on the road outside when she crashed through a fence and into an outdoor table where five children were seated after 2:30pm local time, Police Inspector Craig McEvoy said.

“It appears it is a tragic accident,” McEvoy told reporters.

An 11-year-old boy was taken to hospital with critical injuries and later died, a police statement said.

Two girls, aged 11, a 10-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said.

The driver was arrested at the scene and remained in custody, police said. Neither she nor her student passenger was uninjured.