‘Lit up every room’: family and friends pay tribute to kindergarten worker killed while saving kids in Victorian truck crash
by Guardian staff and Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6S539)
Eleanor Bryant praised for pushing children out of path of truck at Riddells Creek kindergarten
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The devastated family of a kindergarten worker who died saving her young students from an out-of-control truck says she was the light of our lives", as tributes flow from friends and colleagues.
Police are investigating after a 68-year-old driver, suspected of suffering a medical episode, veered his water tanker off the road and ploughed into the preschool's playground, north-west of Melbourne, on Monday.
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