Woman, 52, charged with dangerous driving after two boys killed in Sydney school crash

A 52-year-old woman has been charged with dangerous driving after two boys were killed and several more children injured when a car slammed into a classroom in Sydney’s southwest.

There were 24 children and their teacher in the classroom at about 9.45am on Tuesday morning when the Toyota Kluger crashed through the wall of a Banksia Road Public School classroom at Greenacre.

Two eight-year-old boys were trapped under the vehicle and later pronounced dead at hospital.

The young students aged between seven and 11 had been quietly drawing at their desks when the unthinkable happened.

"We were doing our work and a random car put on the wrong gear and just crashed into the room," one student recalled of the terrifying scene to 7 News.

"It kept on driving and everyone was screaming."

The screams from classroom 3T could be heard right across Banksia Road Public School.

"They were screaming and they were saying I want my mum," said another schoolgirl who heard the screams from a nearby classroom.

"When it happened, I felt like it was thunder and then me and my friends started crying. It was just all so bad," she said.

Inside the classroom 18 children lay injured. Two eight-year-old boys were fighting to stay alive.

Escorted by police, paramedics raced the boys to hospital, but there was little anyone could do.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith confirmed the two little boys had died to the waiting members of the press.

"Tragically two of those children, male children, are deceased," he said.

Three girls were also taken to hospital while their classmates, teachers and families have been left to deal with the shock.

Act Ass Comm Smith said earlier in the day: "We don't believe this was an intentional act. It's a crash investigation and we're investigating it as such."

The driver was taken to Bankstown Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing, police said in a statement released shortly after 5.30pm Tuesday night.

She was later taken to Bankstown police station and charged with two counts of dangerous driving, occasioning death, drive in a dangerous manner, and negligent driving (occasioning death), police said.

The woman's licence was suspended and she was granted conditional bail and will appear in court later this month.