{"id":483035,"date":"2026-06-18T04:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483035\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:29:13","slug":"horror-sydney-pram-crash-victim-had-just-won-award-at-kindy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483035\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Sydney pram crash: Victim had just won award at kindy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The 5-year-old girl killed alongside her baby brother in a horrific Sydney crash had just won an award at kindergarten and was &#8220;excited&#8221; to go home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The two children, aged 5 and 1, died in hospital after the pram they were in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/18\/mothers-horror-as-two-children-die-in-sydney-pram-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was struck by an SUV while they crossed the road<\/a> in Cabramatta, in Sydney&#8217;s southwest, on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Despite efforts from witnesses, who rushed to pull the children from the crash, their injuries were unsurvivable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In a GoFundMe created to support the family, the children were named as Katherine and Harry. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/katherine-5-and-harry-1-were-killed-in-a-horrific-sydney-cra-U7DDQPQVB5FFBO5Q6J3HQNYAII.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine, 5, and Harry, 1, were killed in a horrific Sydney crash.  \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Katherine, 5, and Harry, 1, were killed in a horrific Sydney crash.   (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The page&#8217;s creator, Patrick Te, said the children&#8217;s mother, Sok, had just picked Katherine up from school. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Katherine, who was in her first year of kindergarten, was excited to go home after just receiving an award.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Te said the tragedy was &#8220;extremely difficult to comprehend&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;A mother not only lost a child \u2014 she lost both of her children, her only two children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;As a parent myself, I cannot even begin to fathom the long road ahead for both the mother and father. Regardless of who is at fault, their journey to recovery will be incredibly difficult.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-two-children-died-in-hospital-following-the-crash-O54LW7S4INCWHGKJSXYKGSRWNA.jpg\" alt=\"The two children died in hospital following the crash. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The two children died in hospital following the crash.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He said donations to the page would go towards supporting the family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;It doesn\u2019t look like things will get any easier anytime soon \u2014 it\u2019s a long road ahead, and they deserve all the help they can get.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;As a community, I pray we can come together and ease some of their burden.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">A mother has lost her two young children in a sickening incident, after a SUV struck a pram carrying her kids. (Source: Nine)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Acting Superintendent Timothy Calman said a number of drivers stopped and collectively moved the vehicle onto its side, tipping it to get one of the children out from under it, while others provided CPR. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;The community involved here this afternoon was, I can only say, phenomenal,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The mother was treated for minor injuries at the scene, while the driver of the SUV was uninjured and taken to hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was released pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 5-year-old girl killed alongside her baby brother in a horrific Sydney crash had just won an award&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-483035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}