Girl, 5, critical after being hit by ute outside Sydney school

A five-year-old girl is in a critical condition after she was struck by a ute while riding a scooter outside Rouse Hill Public School in Sydney’s north-west. Emergency services were called to the school campus on Clower Avenue about 3.45pm on Thursday following reports a child had been hit by the car. NSW Police said the girl, who is understood to be a student of the school, had been riding a scooter on the footpath. Multiple ambulance crews attended with a medical team and treated her at the scene, before taking her to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a critical condition.