A fully-laden truck has ploughed through a primary school in Sydney’s south after failing to stop at an intersection and crashing into 19 cars.
Emergency crews worked to free the trapped male truck driver after he crashed into a classroom at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Moorebank.
The driver reportedly failed to stop at an intersection on Newbridge Road and Nuwarra Road at about 1.15pm on Saturday.
Police will probe whether the driver had a medical episode before the crash.
‘He’s gone off the road, crashed into the gate at the local church and then finished underneath a classroom at the school,’ Sergeant Shaun Colls told 7News.
‘Thankfully, it is a weekend (so no children were at the school),’ he said.
A later police statement said ‘The driver was trapped within his cabin for almost 40 minutes before he was released by Fire and Rescue NSW and taken to Liverpool Hospital.’
Eight other people were also treated by paramedics at the scene, two of whom were taken to Liverpool Hospital.
Nobody, including the driver, was seriously injured.
The truck was stuck inside a classroom at the school, with traffic brought to a standstill due to the scale of the crashes.
NSW Fire and Rescue attended the scene to assess the building’s structural safety.
‘The truck will be towed for mechanical examination while the building is being checked for structural damage,’ the police said.
As of late on Saturday evening, the police had not yet spoken with the driver.
Anyone with information or footage of the crash is asked to come forward.