Baby boy's lucky escape as car slams into shop

Terrifying CCTV footage has captured the moment a car slammed into an Australian newsagents, sending debris flying at patrons and knocking down a 17-month-old boy in a pram. Amazingly the child was unhurt, as was his mother and another young sibling that were standing just metres away

The mother was standing at the front counter of the Bondi Centre Newsagency on Bondi Rd, in Sydney's east, when the sedan is seen to veer off the road, mounting the curb and striking the shop at about 3.45pm yesterday. The woman immediately rushed to her young son's aid, with the shopkeeper rushing over to help free the child from the pram and check him for injuries.


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Another camera angle captures the full force of the impact, with the shocked driver and passenger sitting stunned in the vehicle for several moments before freeing themselves from the car. Paramedics checked the mother and her children for injuries and all were given a clean bill of heath.

The same could no be said of Bondi Centre Newsagency which suffered extensive damage to its shopfront and a display unit. "It was very lucky, they were moments away from being killed,'' the newsagency's owner said. Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.