Final plea: I want my mum

Boys killed in school car horror

A BOY, 8, who was fatally injured after a car ploughed into his classroom in Sydney’s west spent his last moments pleading for his mum.

The boy was one of two killed in a horrific crash at Banksia Road Primary School in Greenacre about 9.45am yesterday.

At least three other children were badly injured.

A father and two tradesmen rushed to the scene, lifting the Toyota Kluger off one of the dying boys as his badly injured classmate lay nearby, screaming for his mum.

The child beneath the car, unconscious, was taken to the first-aid room for CPR.

“Three of us lifted it and one of the blokes grabbed him out from underneath,” said the father, who did not want to be named.

Teachers and helpers stayed at the other boy’s side.

“He was saying: ‘I want my mum.’ She wouldn’t have got to see him before he died,” the father said. “He had a big gash in his head.”

Both boys, 8, died at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

Two girls, both 8, were in the same hospital in a stable condition, and another girl, 9, was in a serious condition.

Seventeen children, aged 7 to 9, and a female teacher were assessed by paramedics.

“They were lying all over the ground, and others were just running around screaming,” the father said.

Police described the crash as unintentional. The driver, a woman, 52, was found hysterical in the back of her car.

“I don’t know how she got there, and she was just screaming,” the father said.

“She was screaming ‘Help me, help me’.”

Several parents believed that the woman had been attempting to park her car when disaster struck.

Isaac Tayba, the uncle of one of the children, said: “Apparently, I think, she drove in there and instead of maybe pressing the brake, she might have hit the accelerator.”

Unhurt, the woman was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine tests.

As news of the crash spread, hysterical parents rushed to the school. Some mothers fainted as they waited outside the school, fearing the worst.

Rajah Baghdadi said she was devastated.

“It is heartbreaking. I collected my son – he is safe.

“I can’t get the (other) kids out of my mind,” she said.

Year 3 pupil Tarek, one of 24 children inside the classroom, described the horrifying moment the car rammed into the wooden building.

“The car crashed into the room … I saw one of my friends faint … I started crying. It sounded like a big pop.”

A woman, Maha Al-Shennag, was bailed to face Bankstown Local Court on November 29 on two counts each of dangerous driving occasioning death and negligent driving occasioning death. Her licence has been suspended.