A three-year-old girl, killed when the wind blew her pushchair into the path of a delivery van, has been named as Olivia Uffindell.

The incident happened at 8.45am yesterday outside the home she shared with her nursery nurse mother Louise, in Woburn Court in Wellesley Road, Croydon.

The toddler was in cardiac arrest when she was taken to St George's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 10.03am.

Several neighbours described how the buggy, with Olivia seated in it, was blown into the road by the wind as her mum returned to the house.

A witness, who did not want to be named, said he saw Miss Uffindell giving her daughter CPR.

He said: "The mother was trying to resuscitate her and was blowing air into her nose and mouth.

"She was screaming, 'She's dead, she's dead' but I saw the girl's lips moving and told her to keep on blowing. It was a horrible scene."

Speaking last night, Olivia's grandmother Debbie McClatchie, 49, said the family do not know how they are going to live without their "lovely girl."

She said: "'She [Louise] just reached inside the door to pick something up and the wind just took the push chair.

"She's a nursery nurse and knows CPR so she tried to revive her, she said to me: "Mum I did try.

"She blames herself of course but it was a freak accident. I keep telling her no-one's to blame."

Paying tribute to her granddaughter, Ms McClatchie added: "She was very chatty very funny, very clever.

"She was such a lovely girl I don't know how we're going to live without her.

"She was thrilled to start nursery, she made us call it school because that's where the grown up children went and that's what she wanted to be."

The 36-year-old driver of the DPD delivery van stopped at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving.

He has been bailed to return, pending further inquiries on a date in May.

Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to call police on 020 8285 1574.