Wimbledon school crash

Shortly before 09:54 BST on 6 July 2023, a Land Rover Defender crashed into an end-of-year tea party and injured several people, mainly children, at The Study, a girls' preparatory school in Wimbledon, south-west London, England.

[2] The driver of the car, 46-year-old Claire Freemantle from Wimbledon,[2][4][5] was arrested and bailed on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

[8][9] The crash took place during the first week of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, hosted at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club 0.9 miles (1.4 kilometres) northeast of the school.

[2][6][17] Norman Baker, the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, commented after the crash that 4x4s are "completely inappropriate for urban locations".

[10] A week following the crash, anti-SUV campaigners in Broughty Ferry, a suburb of Dundee, vandalised a Range Rover and left a warning letter with headshots of the deceased girls.

[20] In November 2023,[21] Moore Barlow, a law firm supporting twenty families affected by the crash,[22][23] publicly questioned the delay in the case.

[21][24][25] On 31 December, in an interview article with The Times, the parents released a photo of the mother and daughter taken moments before the crash.

[23] The parents of the first girl spoke to Vanessa Feltz on TalkTV, expressing their lack of confidence in the Metropolitan Police and criticising the delay in the investigation.

[31] On 26 June 2024, the CPS announced the driver would not face charges because she had suffered an epileptic seizure whilst driving,[5] a condition she had not been previously diagnosed with and which could not have been anticipated.

The Study Preparatory School in February 2011