Man questioned after child killed by car on pitch

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BBC A conception  of the greenish  obstruction   astir   the rugby transportation   is flattened. Orange postulation   cones are lined successful  beforehand   of the spread  portion    bluish  and achromatic  constabulary  portion    cordons disconnected  the scene.BBC

A spread successful the obstruction astir Kendal rugby nine was cordoned off

A antheral is being questioned implicit the decease of 1 kid and injuries to different who were deed by a car which crashed done a obstruction and connected to a sports pitch.

The brace were struck astatine Kendal rugby club astatine astir 17:00 GMT connected Wednesday, Cumbria Police said.

The antheral driver, who is aged successful his 40s, was arrested astatine the country connected suspicion of causing decease by unsafe driving.

Tim Farron, the MP for the area, described the clang arsenic "devastating, utterly heartbreaking news", adding: "Our assemblage successful Kendal is stunned and successful mourning."

There was a constabulary beingness astatine the rugby nine into the night, with officers saying the car progressive was a achromatic BMW i40.

Reverend Canon Shanthi Thompson The Reverend Canon Shanthi Thompson is wearing a clerical collar. She has short, precise  curly grey hairsbreadth  and wears ample  black-rimmed glasses.Reverend Canon Shanthi Thompson

The Reverend Canon Shanthi Thompson said Kendal is simply a "close community"

The Reverend Canon Shanthi Thompson, from Kendal Parish Church, said a infinitesimal of soundlessness was held aft its Ash Wednesday work "because it's truthful hard to find the words to accidental astatine a clip similar this".

"Kendal is simply a precise adjacent assemblage and many, galore radical volition person links to the rugby nine and radical volition cognize the children involved," she told BBC Radio Cumbria.

A constabulary  car   parked successful  beforehand   of the sports pitch. Five-a-side shot   goals person  been covered successful  greenish  tarp obscuring the tract  of the crash. The beforehand   of the achromatic  car   tin  beryllium  seen edging retired  from down  1  of the goals. Police officers basal   nearby.

A constabulary beingness remained into the nighttime astatine the rugby club

At the scene

Jennie Dennett, BBC Radio Cumbria

The sunrise present is lighting the frosty transportation and the precise incorrect show of 2 buckled obstruction panels that are pitchside, other the clubhouse car park.

The greenish panels person bent close implicit successful beforehand of the driblet down to the transportation and determination is bluish and achromatic constabulary portion crossed the spread successful the fence.

It's an denotation of the atrocious consequences of yesterday's crash.

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