Today presenter Alex Cullen paid an emotional tribute to his friend, Eleanor Bryant, who pushed children out of the way before a truck ploughed through a kindergarten playground in Riddells Creek.
A beloved kindergarten worker killed while saving children in an “act of bravery” as a truck ploughed into a preschool north-west of Melbourne on Monday has been hailed a hero by police and her community.
Police are yet to interview the truck driver, who remains in hospital under observation. They are investigating whether the man could have suffered a medical episode. On Tuesday morning, local mothers and their children laid flowers outside the preschool, which had its shed caved in and debris strewn around its playground.Branches were torn from a tree outside and one mother stood, sobbing, while her children comforted her beside the preschool fence. Women entering the Riddells Creek Neighbourhood House next door wiped away tears and hugged each other around bunches of flowers.
Social media posts show the 43-year-old promoting the running club at community days and sporting the club’s T-shirt during a trip to the United Kingdom with her husband in May. The cafe workers rushed out and saw paramedics and a fire crew there within minutes, after the loud siren from the local fire station rang out.
“For people to feel comfortable to come in here and have a chat about it already this morning speaks a lot for how close everyone is.”to the speech pathologist, as he grew up with Bryant in Coonamble in NSW’s central west.
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