Boy, 11, killed & 4 children injured after car veers off road & crashes into Melbourne primary school as driver arrested

ONE child has died and four have been injured after a mother collecting her child crashed through the fence of a Melbourne primary school.

The car hit where five students were sitting at an outside table during a break – with an 11-year-old boy taken to hospital with critical injuries where he tragically later died.

One boy was killed after the car ploughed through the fence

APThe car crashed through the fence as it did a u-turn, police said[/caption]

Two 11-year-old girls, one 10-year-old boy and one 10-year-old girl were also injured in the horror collision.

The car, a white SUV, veered off the road and smashed through the fence of Auburn South Primary School in Hawthorne East.

The table the children were sitting at was found just behind the fence under a shade-cloth inside the school.

Video showed the motor with obvious damage to its front-left fender after it came to a halt after passing through the shade-cloth.

The 40-year-old Hawthorn East mother has been arrested by cops, while a primary school-aged child who was a passenger in the car was unharmed. 

Victoria Police Inspector Craig McEvoy said the driver was attempting a U-turn before veering off the road.

McEvoy said it appeared the crash was a “tragic accident” and confirmed officers were investigating.

He said: “(It’s) a really tough scene, always when children are involved.”

He said the vehicle that crashed through the school fence had the Australian equivalent of a P-plate on it.

But cops could not confirm what the driver’s licencing status was.

Inspector McEvoy said: “The ongoing investigation will takes days, weeks, months.”

Specialist accident investigation detectives were at the scene gathering evidence.

APPolice inspect the road as they begin their investigations[/caption]