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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 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 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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