{"id":593165,"date":"2026-04-08T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:00:10","slug":"car-ploughs-into-childcare-centre-east-of-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593165\/","title":{"rendered":"Car ploughs into childcare centre east of Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver has ploughed through the fence of a childcare centre east of Brisbane, stopping just centimetres from the outdoor sandpit.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene in the Redlands suburb of Alexandra Hills just after 3pm following reports a car had driven into a fence.<\/p>\n<p>A mother pulling into the car park made an error behind the wheel and\ufeff smashed through the steel fencing of the Hills Montessori centre, coming to a stop near the edge of the sandpit, 9News understands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/37a8e3ba-3c5e-4c09-a033-3d7cf6ec88a6.jpeg\"   alt=\"Childcare crash Alexandra Hills\"\/>\ufeffThe car drove through the fence into the backyard play area of the facility, police said. (Nine)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/005156fc-163c-4682-9647-96c09a09c118.jpeg\"   alt=\"Childcare crash Alexandra Hills\"\/>Paramedics are assessing a female driver for a head injury. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>All of the children \ufeffwere accounted for and uninjured, aside from one child who sustained a scratch after falling off the play equipment.<\/p>\n<p>First responders said it was &#8220;very lucky&#8221; nobody was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Centre owner Rebecca Grugan praised quick-thinking staff who jumped into action after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as I was told about it and knew about it, I was so thankful, it could have been so much worse,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s that what if moment that you just come in and out of and I&#8217;m just so thankful everyone&#8217;s okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics assessed the female driver for a head injury, but she did not require transport to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver has ploughed through the fence of a childcare centre east of Brisbane, stopping just centimetres from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-593165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}