A father managed to shield his baby with his body as a pensioner lost control of her car and smashed into the pair. Andrew Leach was walking with his four-month-old son and his parents in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith when the speeding car mounted the kerb and ploughed into him.
CCTV footage shows that as the car approached Mr Leach, he instinctively turned his back to the vehicle to shield his son, Hayden. Mr Leach held the baby to his chest as he was pushed into a shop window and had his legs pinned by the car, which was driven by an elderly man who had lost control of the vehicle.
Mr Leach said he remembered thinking: "If they hit the back of me, break a leg or whatever, that's fixable. But if they hit my son, he's not fixable."
Mr Leach's parents, standing nearby, were hit, and the baby's empty pram was sent flying. His parents went to hospital with minor injuries. But Mr Leach said that his son was unhurt.
There's another video here.
5 comments:
Mán what a nightmare!!!
I lost my appetite completely after watching that.
I hate to sound age-ist, but every time I read an article like this, it makes me think there should be laws requiring pensioners to take some kind of driving awareness test every year. I might feel differently when I'm there, but I don't think I want to spend the last few years of my life regretting killing someone that way.
Granted as an Asian female driver, I think there's already a motion out there to keep us from being on the road. :-P In our defense, we mostly park badly, we're not "that" deadly.
Most dorks in traffic that make most of the accidents still are the young sassy cocky drivers that just got their license and that somehow think they are invincible and immortal.
And then after them in the statistics follow the 40-50 year old male drivers who think they have seen it al, know it all and been there so they can do whatever they like because they are experts. and only then with some distance after the females that on average drive really safe, we see the pensioners that still drive even more safe -apart from those few unfortunate ones that in case of accidents immediately get all the media attention.
The elderly get in the same sorts of accidents all the time. It's predictable. It's also easily preventable. Get 'em off the roads!
The elderly get in the same sorts of accidents all the time. It's predictable. It's also easily preventable. Get 'em off the roads!
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