Water truck crashes into Riddells Creek pre-school in regional Victoria leaving one adult dead and a child seriously injured

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Water truck crashes into Riddells Creek pre-school in regional Victoria leaving one adult dead and a child seriously injured
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An adult has died as a truck crashed into a kindergarten in regional Victoria in an unfolding situation. The truck, which appears to be a water truck, clashed into the Macedon Ranges Montessori Pre-School on Main Rd in Riddells Creek through the playground and into a building about 2.20pm on Monday. According to the driver’s employer, the man “is understood to have suffered a medical episode”. Several fire trucks, ambulance and police crews responded to the crash.

We are assisting authorities with their investigations. “McKenzie Water Pty Ltd has been operating in Melbourne and Victoria for 40 years, and our priority has always been safety and compliance.“ Less than a fortnight after similar tragedy The crash comes less than a fortnight after Jack Davey, 11, was killed when a car crashed into his Melbourne schoolyard.

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