A father who helped lift a crashed car off an eight-year-old schoolboy on Tuesday morning has described his heartbreaking cries as he asked for his mum.
The parent, who lives next door to Banksia Road Primary School in Greenacre, Sydney, desperately tried to move the Toyota Kluger off an unconscious child, while a group of tradies tended to the other child moments after the 4WD ploughed through their classroom.
As the 24 year three students inside classroom 3T tried to comprehend the horror that had just unfolded in front of them, the parent heard a desperate plea that will stay with him forever.
"He was saying 'I want my mum'," the man told News Corp.
"She wouldn't have got to see him before he died."