Woman charged over fatal Wimbledon school crash

The driver of the car which crashed into the grounds of a south-west London school killing two eight-year-old girls has been charged by prosecutors. Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died after a Land Rover driven by Claire Freemantle crashed into an end-of-term tea party on the lawn of The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon in July 2023. The Metropolitan Police apologised for how it "initially dealt with the incident" and said it would "fundamentally reset" how it investigates fatal and serious crashes. The 48-year-old was charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven offences of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Her lawyers said she would deny all charges. In a statement, the girls' parents said they were one step closer to finding out why their children died, which they described as an "unthinkable tragedy". They added: "In June 2024, we rejected the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to take no further action because we did not believe that decision had been made on the full facts. We were right to challenge that decision. "The Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Review Group's findings, the reopening of the investigation, and the need to ob