Mother killed in car accident at prep school

A WOMAN in her fifties was run over and killed in the car park of a leading £21,000-a-year all-boys boarding school after watching bonfire night celebrations.

She had been walking through the car park in the grounds of Sunningdale School, Berkshire, on Thursday evening, when she was hit.

The prep school, which charges £7,070 a term for boarders and £5,495 a term for day pupils, had just finished its annual bonfire night celebrations when the tragedy happened.

As spectators made their way back to their cars, the woman was hit by by a blue Ford Galaxy and killed at the scene.

Tom Dawson, the headmaster, decribed the incident as a tragedy, and said pupils and parents had been very distressed.

The school has confirmed that the woman was a parent of a pupil at the school.

Police officers from the serious collision investigation unit were investigating the circumstances.

Pc David Beeson said: “I would like to speak to anyone who saw the collision or saw the vehicle travelling immediately prior to the collision.

“If you have any information about the collision and have not already spo- ken to police, please call 101 as soon as possible as these details may assist the investigation.”

Sunningdale boys’ school was founded in 1874 by Canon William Girdlestone and the buildings are enclosed by trees on a green patch of land in leafy Berkshire.

The school is renowned for being a feeder school for Eton and Harrow, and former pupils include the Queen’s cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, Bamber Gascoigne, who presented Univer

sity Challenge from 1962 to 1987, and Nick Hurd, Conservative MP for Ruislip Northwood and Pinner.

It currently has 110 pupils, aged between seven and 13.