‘Hold your little ones really tight’: how an ordinary Melbourne primary school pick-up turned to tragedy

Jack Davey, 11, died on Tuesday after a car ploughed through the fence of his primary school in Hawthorn East. Photograph: Davey family

It was an afternoon recess on what should have been an ordinary, sunny spring Tuesday at Auburn South primary school.

Within the grounds of the Melbourne school, five primary school students were seated around an outdoor table overlooking a soccer pitch. Moments later, the scene turned to one of horror.