Doncaster East crash: Schoolgirl taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital after King St accident
Police have described the moment a schoolgirl was thrown into the air after being hit by a car while walking home in Doncaster East. It comes just days after a separate incident in which a student was hit by a truck in Mulgrave.
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A schoolgirl remains in hospital in a serious condition after she was hit by a car and thrown across the road, landing under another car while walking home from school in Doncaster East.
The 16-year-old was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with upper-body injuries following the incident about 4.15pm yesterday.
Nunawading highway patrol Sergeant Paul Egan said the girl was walking across King St, near the corner of Blackburn Rd, when she was struck by a gold Honda sedan travelling west.
He said the girl was thrown onto the car’s windscreen and through the air before landing on the road underneath a stationary car.
According to police reports, the girl hit her head on both the car and the road.
Sgt Egan said the girl had gone to cross the road, with traffic in one lane of King St having come to a stop.
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He said the Honda turned left out of Blackburn Rd and hit the girl as she stepped into the other lane.
The driver, a 20-year-old Hampton Park woman, went with police to Doncaster police station after the crash.
Sgt Egan said investigations were continuing, but she wasn’t expected to be charged.
The incident comes after a schoolgirl was hit by a truck as she crossed Police Rd in Mulgrave after school on Thursday, February 6.