By Jack Mendel
A girl has been killed as a car crashed into a girls’ prep school building.
The Metropolitan Police said a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after the incident at The Study Preparatory School in Camp Road, Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday.
In a statement, the force said: “We can now confirm that sadly a child has died following an incident where a car collided with a building at a school in Wimbledon.
“We can also confirm that the driver of the vehicle, a woman aged in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
“There have been further injuries and we await an update from the London Ambulance Service.”
The Met initially said seven children and two adults had been injured in the incident and the driver stopped at the scene.
Police, firefighters and paramedics, including London’s Air Ambulance, responded at around 9.54am on Thursday.
The force said the incident is not being treated as terror-related.
Wimbledon MP Stephen Hammond told the the PA news agency that several of those hurt were “critically injured”.
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