The mother of a 10-year-old student says the incident happened minutes before the “entire field would’ve been covered with children” out for break time, and the incident left them anxious and emotional.
“Had it been 10 minutes later, he would have mowed down a lot of kids on his way through the school.”
The broken fence at Kapakapanui School in Waikanae. Photo / Supplied.
Images uploaded by the school showed a broken fence and gate. Photo / Facebook / Kapakapanui School
The mother, who wished not to be named, said the teachers immediately put classrooms into lockdown and she described their response as “brilliant”.
Last year, a car driving erratically in Auckland narrowly missed a student before pulling a U-turn and driving along a footpath and berm where another two students were almost struck.
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