Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a woman following a fatal crash in Hawthorn East last year.
It is alleged a car veered off the road on Burgess Street and crashed through a school fence and into a group of children just after 2.30pm on 29 October 2024.
An 11-year-old boy was taken to hospital with critical injuries where he sadly died.
Two 11-year-old girls, a 10-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were all taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The driver, a 40-year-old Hawthorn East woman, was arrested at the scene and released pending further inquiries.
Her passenger, a primary school aged child, was not injured.
On Tuesday 13 May, detectives charged the woman with careless driving and fail to have proper control of a motor vehicle.
She was summonsed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 15 July.
