Driver, 40, arrested after a car smashes into a special needs school during pupil drop-off time...

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The motor slammed into Alderman Knight School in Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, at 8.25am today.

The car slammed into Alderman Knight School in Gloucestershire at 8.25am. Did YOU see what happened? Please email tom.cotterill@mailonline.co.ukA driver has been arrested after a car smashed into a school during pupil drop-off.

The car slammed into the gates at the Alderman Knight School in Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, at 8.25am on Wednesday morning Read More Masked boy, 15, who stabbed teacher in school corridor with six-inch knife is jailed for 14 months Alderman Knight was rated as 'outstanding' during a recent inspection by education watchdog, Ofsted, who hailed the establishment an 'exceptional school' where 'pupils flourish'.

The mayhem sparked a four-hour lockdown, with teacher barricading terrified pupils in classrooms by putting wardrobes across doors, while some children cowered in cupboards.

Imposing a 14-month detention and training order last September, District Judge Lynne Matthews told him: ‘You were not acting impulsively. You took the face covering to school, you took the knife to school.' About 100 parents and locals reportedly gathered outside the academy, which is on the same site as the special needs school, after a teacher was stabbed in July last year

Hundreds of parents gathered at the school took their children home when they were allowed out from 1.30pm.

 

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