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May 26th, 2010, 01:56 AM
15:38 AEST Wed May 26 2010
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1058366/train-hits-pram-but-baby-survives
The second baby to survive being hit by a train in Melbourne's southeast in seven months has been described as a "miracle baby" by paramedics.
A 15-month-old boy was sitting in his pram when it apparently rolled off a platform at Tooronga train station in Malvern at 11.30am (AEST) on Wednesday.
The pram was hit by a train, but the baby boy escaped with just some minor facial bruising and grazes to his head.
Wednesday's incident comes seven months after a similar incident involving six-month-old baby Saurish Verma, who survived unscathed when his pram fell under a train at Ashburton train station, 4km away, on October 15 last year.
Paramedic Kate Jessop, who attended the incident on Wednesday, said she could not believe the baby had escaped in good health.
"It's absolutely amazing that this child isn't more injured than what he is, given the circumstances of the accident," Ms Jessop told reporters.
"It would appear amazingly that it's nothing more than a couple of grazes and a big fright.
"To be called to a one-year-old boy in a pram being hit by a train is every paramedic's worst nightmare.... I was assuming the worst as well and had those awful pictures in my head of a child underneath the train."
The baby and his three-year-old brother were being looked after by their grandmother when the incident occurred. Paramedics said she was too distraught to talk.
"All she can recall is seeing the pram on the platform and then turned around and saw it on the track, so she's had an incredible fright," Ms Jessop said.
"She didn't see it happen, so it's an assumption.
"The biggest message here is to understand how your prams work and make sure you put the brakes on at all times, particularly in circumstances where you could be at risk of it rolling off and not having control of it."
Paramedics took the baby to the Royal Children's Hospital in a stable condition, where his mother would be reunited with him after being contacted, Ms Jessop said.
In last October's incident, security footage was shown worldwide of six-month-old Saurish and his pram falling off the platform and being pushed 30 metres along the tracks by a train, as his mother Shweta Verma watched in horror.
© AAP 2010
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1058366/train-hits-pram-but-baby-survives
The second baby to survive being hit by a train in Melbourne's southeast in seven months has been described as a "miracle baby" by paramedics.
A 15-month-old boy was sitting in his pram when it apparently rolled off a platform at Tooronga train station in Malvern at 11.30am (AEST) on Wednesday.
The pram was hit by a train, but the baby boy escaped with just some minor facial bruising and grazes to his head.
Wednesday's incident comes seven months after a similar incident involving six-month-old baby Saurish Verma, who survived unscathed when his pram fell under a train at Ashburton train station, 4km away, on October 15 last year.
Paramedic Kate Jessop, who attended the incident on Wednesday, said she could not believe the baby had escaped in good health.
"It's absolutely amazing that this child isn't more injured than what he is, given the circumstances of the accident," Ms Jessop told reporters.
"It would appear amazingly that it's nothing more than a couple of grazes and a big fright.
"To be called to a one-year-old boy in a pram being hit by a train is every paramedic's worst nightmare.... I was assuming the worst as well and had those awful pictures in my head of a child underneath the train."
The baby and his three-year-old brother were being looked after by their grandmother when the incident occurred. Paramedics said she was too distraught to talk.
"All she can recall is seeing the pram on the platform and then turned around and saw it on the track, so she's had an incredible fright," Ms Jessop said.
"She didn't see it happen, so it's an assumption.
"The biggest message here is to understand how your prams work and make sure you put the brakes on at all times, particularly in circumstances where you could be at risk of it rolling off and not having control of it."
Paramedics took the baby to the Royal Children's Hospital in a stable condition, where his mother would be reunited with him after being contacted, Ms Jessop said.
In last October's incident, security footage was shown worldwide of six-month-old Saurish and his pram falling off the platform and being pushed 30 metres along the tracks by a train, as his mother Shweta Verma watched in horror.
© AAP 2010