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baby survives when pram rolls off platform in front of train

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PeedOffWithNits · 16/10/2009 10:55

bloody hell

thank goodness the baby survived. the video is haunting, even though you cannot see the mothers face, you can imagine her screaming and wailing

hope baby makes a full recovery

Poor poor train driver too

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BudaBones · 16/10/2009 10:57

I just saw that. Bloody scary. Agree that the video is haunting.

bronze · 16/10/2009 11:01

I watched that in shock
am very glad I read the baby was ok before watching it

good to see the people start to move when they realise whats happened

am sat here with my sleeping 6 month old in my arms

calebsmum · 16/10/2009 11:21

Good god what a shocking video, had me in tears. My pram has rolled forwards before without me noticing. Am so glad that baby survived, miracle he only had a small bump to the head. Poor mother would be traumatised for life.

Morloth · 16/10/2009 11:33

Poor train driver as well. No-one's fault. Baby was really OK? From the angle it looked like the pram went into the dip.

Harimosbroomstick · 16/10/2009 12:53

God, just made me feel sick... I cannot imagine how that mother didn't physically keel over. You can just sense the terror in her body language...

Amazing that the little boy is OK. I hope his mum, the driver and anyone else who witnessed it gets the support they are likely to need.

Flippin' hell - it got to me and I'm safely at home, thousands of miles away with my two littlies.

Triggles · 16/10/2009 14:14

That video is horrible to watch - I felt like I should be screaming at the mum to get her attention when the pram started rolling off. Thank god that baby is okay!

nappyaddict · 16/10/2009 14:19

Horrible!

I can understand you not noticing a pram rolling off if you're not holding onto it but it says she was holding it? Surely she must have let go for a split second for it to roll off?

ScummyMummy · 16/10/2009 14:20

deep breaths. harrowing. thank goodness he was ok

Harimosbroomstick · 16/10/2009 14:26

One I think you just have to say 'there but for the grace of god'.... and always use the wrist strap.

I really am so happy the little one is OK, but I don't think his mum will get over it any time soon...

Can you imagine how long it took to move that train? That pain is indescribable. I cannot imagine what the mum must have gone through during that time.

I really think she must be a candidate for PTSA. My heart goes out to her.

Morloth · 16/10/2009 14:27

It looks like she was doing that rocking thing you do to get them off to sleep and it slid out of her hand at exactly the wrong moment/angle.

Gah, well that is my nightmare sorted for tonight.

ChilloHippi · 16/10/2009 14:42

That video sent shivers down my spine.

BettyTurnip · 16/10/2009 14:46

Saw this on the lunchtime news, my stomach was churning watching it.

Looked to me like she was hitching her jeans up so had both hands off the handle.

I've always had an irrational fear of this so park the buggy sideways on at the side of the road, on a train platform etc. Second nature now,

suwoo · 16/10/2009 14:56

Fuck me, that is horrific. Poor, poor woman to go through those moments of undoubtedly what was abject terror.

frumpygrumpy · 16/10/2009 14:58

Saw this earlier today, and its haunted me all day. I also imagined the screams. Even though I knew the baby was ok, it still shocks to the core and turns your stomach.

potplant · 16/10/2009 14:59

I feel sick watching that, even knowing that the outcome was a happy one.

I once left the brake off the trolley with my DS sitting in it. Turned my back for a moment and the trolley was half way across a busy supermarket car park. I've never run so fast in all my life.

It is so easily done.

2kidzandi · 16/10/2009 15:07

So was it the pushchair that saved him by cushioning him? Its a good buggy. But blimey, I don't think I'll walk anywhere near the edge of a platform again after watching that. Felt like screaming myself. Hope the mums alright.

2010Dad · 16/10/2009 15:14

That was terrifying to watch. Gut wrenching. That poor woman.

Sidge · 16/10/2009 16:04

I had my heart in my mouth watching that

The poor mum, and the other people on the platform, they must have imagined the worst; thank goodness the baby was ok!

StrictlyAvadaKedavraarrrrghhhh · 16/10/2009 16:06

My heart was ion my mouth watching that despite knowing beforehand that the baby was ok. Have to say, good old Phil and Teds then!

Harimosbroomstick · 16/10/2009 16:39

Yes, did look like a phil and teds,didn't it?

Even knowing the baby is ok, though. It's stll harrowing...

UnquietDad · 16/10/2009 16:42

'Scuse my dimess, what is Phil and Teds?

It's hard to watch that video without shouting something out loud at it!

(Glad people aren't castigating her for a moment of inattention, though. How different from the thread earlier in the year when a dad temporarily let go of a pram and a child fell down an incline. Then it was all "stupid twonk" etc...)

differentWitch · 16/10/2009 16:43

Holy Hell, that was scary!!!![hshcok]

Thankfully, the mother had strapped the baby in properly or it could have been a very different ending!

differentWitch · 16/10/2009 16:46

UQD, the difference between that and this is that the dad had let go of the pram to kiss the woman he was seeing behind his wife's back.

Northernlurker · 16/10/2009 16:47

That is awful and miraculous all at the same time.

misdee · 16/10/2009 16:48

looked more like a mountain buggy to me due to the hood strutcure

in australia,. due to rolling incidences like this, others not so lucky, sadly, all breaks on buggies are now red, so easily noticable.

i have to keep a good hold on my MB when out, as it doesnt have a tether strap, and we are on angles when crossing roads.