Two young children under the age of five have been killed after a car crashed into their pram in Sydney.<\/p>\n
A car struck a pram carrying the two children at the intersection of Joseph and Gilbert St in Cabramatta, in Sydney\u2019s southwest, about 3.15pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The youngsters were treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics and rushed to hospital in a critical condition, but they could not be saved.<\/p>\n
Several members of the public scrambled to help with the emergency response, physically moving the car to try to free one of the youngsters.<\/p>\n
NSW Police Superintendent Tim Calman said the public effort to provide assistance was \u201cphenomenal\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a number of motorists that have actually stopped and collectively have moved the vehicle onto its side, tipped it over in order to get one of the children from underneath the vehicle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tragic circumstances for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shocking helicopter images of the aftermath captured by 7News shows a black car on its side on the embankment by the road.<\/p>\n
Police say the two young victims were aged five and one.<\/p>\n
NSW Police also confirmed a 33-year-old woman, who was known to the children, was treated for minor injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n
The driver of the car, a 56-year-old man, was uninjured and placed under arrest, before being taken to hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n
The Cumberland Highway was closed for several hours following the crash but was reopened by about 8pm.<\/p>\n
It was closed in the southbound carriageway from John St to Cabramatta Rd West.<\/p>\n
The children are yet to be formally identified, but a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young children under the age of five have been killed after a car crashed into their pram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-742989","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\/742989","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=742989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}