Woman saves her kids from a car about to fall off a cliff, blimey....

[DrNortherner]

bet this shook her up a bit

Thank God they are OK.

Thank God she managed to grab them.

Must have given her (and them) the fright of their lives.

OMG! They must have had to thinks o quickly. Probably no time then to feel terrified; bet she is in massive shock now. Thank goodness it wasn't a little baby - much harder to get out!

yeah, I thought that (about getting the children out) when I saw it on the news. But had they been babies in car seats, they wouldn't have knocked the handbrake so maybe it wouldn't have happened iyswim.

actually, I hate doing the if if if (if they were babies..) thing so I won't . But it did go through my mind.

She must have been so shocked poor woman!

What a fright. I always leave car parked in reverse if I'm facing down or at edge of a cliff!

nightmarish. thank god she got them out.

Oh jeez how scary.

We are going on holiday near there in may!!!
I dont want to fall off a cliff

good grief, quick thinking on the mum getting them out!

must have been a day for it in cornwall on thursday, we were in north cornwall, packed the car up, ready to come home after a week away. on our way back to it, just feet away with the children and some idiot crashed straight into the back of it, and shunted it down the road

ds had been a bit poorly while we've been away, bad cold and conjunctivitus in both eyes, we were all stressed and tired and that was the absolute last thing we needed to happen

it looks like its the tailgate thats taken the brunt of it, the rac man said he thinks the chasis is ok and let us drive home (4.5 hr drive), in it, but it was 9pm by the time it was all sorted so it was gone 1am before we got back. car is off the local garage next week to be fixed

Hi, it seems they had only borrowed the car from a familly friend and they actually come from a village just down the road from me in South Gloucestershire.
That handbrake could not have been on properly or it was faulty.
God, i'd have nightmares all the time of what could have happened!

Read about this more in the papers. Mum was in the car. Because of the quickness o it all, etc. she jumped out and then saved child. Quickest thing would have been to just pull the handbrake up again, bit in the shock she just didn't think! Nightmare.

The moral of this story is to ALWAYS leave the car in gear when you park.