Driver of 4×4 to face no further action after crash which killed two schoolgirls

Evening Standard

27 June 2024 at 4:10 am

Statement from Mark Jones, partner at Payne Hicks Beach and the solicitor representing the driver involved in the Wimbledon school car crash in July 2023.The driver of a car that crashed into a school killing two eight-year-old girls will face no criminal charges after it was found she had suffered an epileptic seizure behind the wheel.Nuria Sajjad and fellow eight-year-old pupil Selena Lau died after the crash at The Study Prep school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on July 6 last year.The driver of the car, Claire Freemantle, has expressed her “deepest sorrow” and said she had “no recollection of what took place” after losing consciousness because of an epileptic seizure at the wheel.

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