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A 15-year-old girl has been killed by a car while walking to her school bus this morning in a rural area of NSW's Hunter region.
Police say the girl was struck on Warrigal Close in Brandy Hill, a normally quiet community of acreages around 40 kilometres north of Newcastle.
The 40-year-old male driver was a local resident, and was driving his own children to school, police told the ABC.
Emergency services were called just before 7:30am and the girl was treated by paramedics, but died at the scene.
Crash investigators spent the morning analysing the accident site and a four-wheel-drive with significant damage to its front left side was towed from the scene.
Shortly after police left, a local woman expressed her sympathy for the family by leaving flowers at the accident site.
The driver of the car was taken by police for mandatory breath testing and is assisting with inquiries.
Karen Manuel, a resident on the street where the school girl was killed, said it is normal for children to walk on the road to and from the bus stop.
"We see them all the time," she said.
"We all walk the road ourselves for exercise."
She also said that drivers have to be very careful driving up the road in the morning.
"The sun is definitely blinding in the mornings going up the street," she said.
Ms Manuel said it is very hard to process the girl's death and she believed the whole street would be affected greatly.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, police, seaham-2324
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