A runaway van crashed through the gates of a San Fernando primary school around 1 pm, smashing a railing and coming to stop when it struck the school's wall. The panel van had no driver, police said. Luckily all the students were inside their classrooms at TML Primary School at the time of the incident. The bang caused both pupils and teachers to rush out of their classrooms. The van belonged to a visitor.
The driver told police he parked the van in a car park opposite the school's main entrance at Roodal Street Extension. The school is situated on a slope.
Apparently the van was not secured properly, police said. The van began to roll forward, bursting through the school gates into the schoolyard. It ran through a railing on the northern side, plunged off a four-foot cliff and slammed into the wall. There were no damage to the wall, police said. San Fernando Traffic Branch Police visited the scene and are conducting investigations.