LONDON — London police say seven children and two adults were injured Thursday when a car crashed into an elementary school in Wimbledon, in southwest London.
The Metropolitan Police said the incident was not being treated as a terror attack.
Police were called to The Study all-girls school at 9:54 a.m., along with paramedics in ground and air ambulances. The driver of the vehicle stopped at the scene, police said. There have been no arrests.
The incident occurred about a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the Grand Slam tournament. The road the incident took place on is very narrow.
“The size of the response tells you how serious the incident is, and there are a number of casualties, and I understand that a number of those are being treated as critical,” Stephen Hammond, Wimbledon’s representative in Parliament, told the BBC.