Baby gets run over by train .. How luck is this ..
16 October 2009, 04:46 PM
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Baby gets run over by train .. How lucky is this ..
Train Hits Baby's Pram: Boy In Ashburton, Melbourne, Australia, Survives Rail Collision | World News | Sky News
A six-month-old boy has miraculously survived a train slamming into his pram after it rolled off an Australian railway platform.
The collision happened as a city-bound service pulled up to Ashburton station, in a Melbourne suburb.
CCTV footage shows the boy's mother taking her hands off the three-wheeler pram's handles and failing to notice as it slowly edges towards the tracks.
The mum suddenly spots the baby carrier picking up speed and she rushes with outstretched arms to try to save her young child.
But the pram tips over the edge of the platform and the baby slams onto the tracks head first.
Before the boy can be rescued, the train powers past, horrifying the mother and other waiting passengers.
The footage ends with the frantic mum and a man running up to the driver, who has just stopped the 250-ton vehicle.
The pram tipping over the edge
Australia's Herald Sun said the train ploughed into the pram at about 35km/h, dragging the child along beneath the front carriage.
But the boy was hauled from the tracks with little more than a bump on his head.
Paramedic Jon Wright said the six-month-old just "needed a feed and a nap".
"Luckily, he was strapped into his pram at the time, which probably saved his life. I think the child's extremely lucky," the paramedic told the paper.
"Fortunately the train was slowing as it pulled into the station."
Rail firm Connex is to investigate how the pram rolled off the platform and the train driver will be offered counselling.
A six-month-old boy has miraculously survived a train slamming into his pram after it rolled off an Australian railway platform.
The collision happened as a city-bound service pulled up to Ashburton station, in a Melbourne suburb.
CCTV footage shows the boy's mother taking her hands off the three-wheeler pram's handles and failing to notice as it slowly edges towards the tracks.
The mum suddenly spots the baby carrier picking up speed and she rushes with outstretched arms to try to save her young child.
But the pram tips over the edge of the platform and the baby slams onto the tracks head first.
Before the boy can be rescued, the train powers past, horrifying the mother and other waiting passengers.
The footage ends with the frantic mum and a man running up to the driver, who has just stopped the 250-ton vehicle.
The pram tipping over the edge
Australia's Herald Sun said the train ploughed into the pram at about 35km/h, dragging the child along beneath the front carriage.
But the boy was hauled from the tracks with little more than a bump on his head.
Paramedic Jon Wright said the six-month-old just "needed a feed and a nap".
"Luckily, he was strapped into his pram at the time, which probably saved his life. I think the child's extremely lucky," the paramedic told the paper.
"Fortunately the train was slowing as it pulled into the station."
Rail firm Connex is to investigate how the pram rolled off the platform and the train driver will be offered counselling.
Last edited by pimmo2000; 16 October 2009 at 06:35 PM.
16 October 2009, 07:21 PM
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I thought it was odd how she didn't see the pushchair rolling away as she seemed to be looking straight at it 
Also if you look, the passengers took ages to react to it even though they saw it happen.
Bladdy incredible that the baby survived though!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...rain-hits-pram
Also if you look, the passengers took ages to react to it even though they saw it happen.
Bladdy incredible that the baby survived though!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...rain-hits-pram
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16 October 2009, 08:04 PM
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Firstly she looks along the platform toward the train only a few seconds before it arrives, so unless there was a sharp corner I reckon she saw the train coming.
Then she turns the buggy round purposefully and lets it roll directly away from her toward the edge of the platform whilst hitching up her jeans, pretty much as the train arrives.
It seems a bit coincidental to me. I can't believe a mother would be so careless with her kid near to train tracks and the edge of the platform.
I'm glad the child survived though.
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16 October 2009, 08:22 PM
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I watched it ealier and thought the same.
Firstly she looks along the platform toward the train only a few seconds before it arrives, so unless there was a sharp corner I reckon she saw the train coming.
Then she turns the buggy round purposefully and lets it roll directly away from her toward the edge of the platform whilst hitching up her jeans, pretty much as the train arrives.
It seems a bit coincidental to me. I can't believe a mother would be so careless with her kid near to train tracks and the edge of the platform.
I'm glad the child survived though.
Firstly she looks along the platform toward the train only a few seconds before it arrives, so unless there was a sharp corner I reckon she saw the train coming.
Then she turns the buggy round purposefully and lets it roll directly away from her toward the edge of the platform whilst hitching up her jeans, pretty much as the train arrives.
It seems a bit coincidental to me. I can't believe a mother would be so careless with her kid near to train tracks and the edge of the platform.
I'm glad the child survived though.
We will prolly read in the papers that she is suffering from mental illness or something. Post natal depression? the truth will out
16 October 2009, 10:49 PM
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Great to hear that the little fella is ok.
Ive always thought that their should be pop up barriers/hand rails on platforms a few feet away from the track to stop things like this happening or to stop prying youngesters from wandering near to the edge, they could sink flush into the ground and then be raised when a train is a couple of mile away from a station.
Ive always thought that their should be pop up barriers/hand rails on platforms a few feet away from the track to stop things like this happening or to stop prying youngesters from wandering near to the edge, they could sink flush into the ground and then be raised when a train is a couple of mile away from a station.
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