Clair Kelland, policing Commander for south-west London, has delivered a statement at the scene of the fatal Wimbledon collision.
I am here to give you an update following today’s tragic incident here in Wimbledon.
We were called shortly before 10 o’clock this morning after a car collided with a building at The Study Preparatory School, behind me in Camp Road.
A large number of our officers were deployed to the scene, along with paramedics from the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance.
Our officers, along with our colleagues from the other emergency services, provided first aid to a number of people who had been injured.
Very sadly, one of the children, an eight-year-old girl, died at the scene.
Our thoughts are with her family at this incredibly difficult time.
The driver of the car, a woman aged in her 40s, stopped at the scene.
She was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been taken into custody.
This is a very difficult time for everyone here at the school and across the wider community.
We would ask people not to speculate while we work to understand the full circumstances of what has happened.
We are not treating this incident as terror related.
Our officers have already spoken to a number of witnesses and have viewed
CCTV.
If anyone has any information about what happened, please contact us as soon as possible by calling 101, or speaking to officers here at the scene.
