{"id":743322,"date":"2026-06-18T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743322\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:04:13","slug":"cabramatta-car-crash-two-young-children-dead-after-being-struck-by-car-near-busy-sydney-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743322\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabramatta car crash: Two young children dead after being struck by car near busy Sydney highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

An outpouring of grief has been shared following the deaths of a kindergartener and her baby brother who were fatally hit by a car<\/a> near a busy highway in Sydney\u2019s<\/a> south-west.<\/p>\n

At about 3.15pm yesterday, emergency crews were called to the intersection of Joseph and Gilbert Street, near the Cumberland Highway in Cabramatta following reports of a crash. <\/p>\n

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Katherine, 5, and Harry, 1, were killed when they were hit by a car in Cabramatta, Sydney.\u00a0GoFundMe<\/p>\n

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Two children have been killed in a crash near the Cumberland Highway.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Police say two children, both under the age of five, were hit by a car at the intersection while being pushed in a pram by their mother.<\/p>\n

An online fundraiser set up for the family has raised more than $5000 so far.<\/p>\n

The organiser, Patrick Te, named the two children as five-year-old Katherine and 14-month-old Harry.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir mother, Sok, was picking up Katherine from school. Katherine, who was in her first year of kindergarten, was excited to go home after just receiving an award,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs they were crossing the road together, heading back to the car, an oncoming vehicle suddenly struck both Katherine and the pram where Harry was sitting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The children were rushed to hospital with critical injuries, where they died. Sok was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Tim Calman called it \u201cone of the most confronting scenes\u201d police have seen, but added that the community were \u201cphenomenal\u201d in providing immediate help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a number of motorists that actually stopped and have collectively moved the vehicle on its side … to get one of the children from underneath the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calman said multiple onlookers performed CPR on the children.<\/p>\n

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Their mother, Sok, was taking the children home.\u00a0GoFundMe<\/p>\n

\"Superintendent<\/p>\n

Superintendent Tim Calman said the driver of the vehicle was arrested following the fatal crash.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

The children were rushed to Westmead Hospital in critical condition, but they died shortly after.<\/p>\n

Their 33-year-old mother, suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old driver, who was uninjured, was arrested and taken to hospital for mandatory testing. <\/p>\n

All southbound lanes on the Cumberland Highway remain closed, and authorities are urging commuters to avoid the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An outpouring of grief has been shared following the deaths of a kindergartener and her baby brother who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-743322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743322","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=743322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}