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An 11-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was hit by a train on the way to school in Adelaide.
Police and emergency services were called to Tambelin Railway Station at Evanston Gardens in the city's north at 8.15am following reports a child had been struck by a city-bound train.
Classmates and teachers were among the first responders.
Witnesses described what happened.
"The train stopped and lots of people were just running up and banging on the door," Sophie McDougall told 9News.
"No one on the train had any idea what happened and there were lots of people crowding the person who got hit."
"There were a group of students and teachers crowding looking quite distressed."
Paramedics treated the boy by the side of the railway line for more than an hour before he was rushed to Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital in a critical condition.
Passengers on the train were not allowed to leave for an hour while police investigators and paramedics cleared the site.
The train line was also closed.
Trinity College, in Adelaide's north, put an email out to parents to alert them a year seven student was hit, adding a number of Trinity students and staff witnessed the incident.
It asked them to "keep this student in your thoughts and prayers".
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