Baby Survives After Stroller Falls Off Australia Train Platform

A six-month-old boy has miraculously survived a train slamming into his stroller 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.

A security video shows the boy's mother taking her hands off the stroller's handles and failing to notice as it slowly edged toward the tracks.

The mom suddenly spots the baby stroller picking up speed and she rushes with outstretched arms to try to save her young child, but the stroller 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 mom and a man running up to the driver, who has just stopped the 250-ton vehicle.

Australia's Herald Sun said the train ploughed into the stroller, dragging the child along beneath the train's front car.

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."

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[elseverwoerd]

The sensible question to ask is: why was the platform built in such a ridiculous way that it had a slope towards the train railway?

[karakaraswee]

From what ive learnt in final destination, death is coming for ya.

[aeriellefreak]

If you look closely you can see a shadow in where the baby fell :) Like if you saw it too :)

[Hellofriend332]

Those red arrows really like to push people onto train tracks...

[MrJoshdur]

baby sittig chair should be designed as handler releases break should on!...

[damacon]

she was just acting. she wanted the insurance money. bad parenting

[swelinus]

How the fu-king hell could she miss that just happening?

[mostwanted092]

*sigh* you kids play the "blame game " too much.

[mostwanted092]

Ahem. She took a second to pull up her pants. =_=

How does it make sense to put your hands on your pockets right before a train comes?

[zak259]

Proof that buying one of those huge prams won't keep your child from danger! Anyway what was this silly mother doing with her hands in her pocket and not watching her bulldozer pram by the edge of the platform as the train was arriving. Such machines shouldn't be allowed in the underground anyway.

[SunsetSupermanRMB]

This is footage of Chuck Norris as a baby.