Baby survives after pram rolls directly in front of train

May 27, 2010 by Shawn Douglas  
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A baby in Melbourne, Australia has ‘miraculously’ survived a pram tumble in front of a train entering Tooronga station.

“All she [the grandmother] can recall is she saw the pram on the platform and then next time she turned around she saw it on the tracks.”

Those were the words of Kate Jessop, a paramedic called to the scene of an accident yesterday at Melbourne’s Tooronga metro station. Jessop, interviewed by The Independent, said that it was “amazing” that the 15-month-old boy survived the incident with only a few scratches.

The boy’s grandmother was at the station yesterday with the toddler and his three-year-old brother, when she became briefly distracted by something. It was long enough that the pram the toddler was in began to slowly roll towards the edge of the platform. When the grandmother noticed, it was too late.

The pram was dragged eight to 10 meters despite the best efforts of the driver, who quickly engaged the emergency brake. “All my instincts just kicked in, with the emergency brake,” driver Steve Ryan told the Herald Sun.

“I just watched the pram going under. All I was concerned about was the baby in the pusher.”

Jessop said that she was surprised at how few injuries the boy suffered. “I was assuming the worst when we received the call and had awful pictures in my head of a child underneath a train,” she told The Independent.

“The one-year-old has sustained some minor facial bruising and some grazes to the head, but appears to be otherwise uninjured.”

The boy was treated at Royal Children’s Hospital for the injuries, while the grandmother was receiving treatment for shock.

A video of the CCTV footage is available on YouTube.

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