Car hits five students outside Auckland school

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published September 20, 2017

An Auckland teen has been left with life-threatening injuries after a car ploughed through five students outside a North Shore high school as classmates looked on.

AUCKLAND, Sept 20 - Emergency services were called to the crash outside Westlake Girls' High School on Wairau Road about 8.30am on ...

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