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Car Crashes onto Kendal Rugby Union Football Club, Killing a Child in Kendal, Cumbria

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Shap Road, Kendal, Cumbria 5th March 2025:

Cumbria Police investigate after a car crashed through a fence at Kendal Rugby Union Football Club, down to a pitch from the car park, hitting children playing football below.

One child has died from their injuries.

Cumbria Police statement: Police were contacted at 4:58pm today (5 March) with a report of a collision involving a car and two children on a pitch at Kendal Rugby Union Football Club on Shap Road.

Police can confirm that one of the children involved has sadly died.

The second child involved in this collision is being treated by paramedics.

Immediate family members of both respective children have been informed.

Specialist investigators are at the scene and the area has been cordoned off as initial investigation enquiries take place.

The driver of the car, a man aged in his 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

The car involved was a black BMW i40.

Police are treating this collision as an isolated incident and there is no suggestion at this time that this is terror-related.

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