REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
UNUSUAL COLLISION.
A sleeping child in a perambulator bad a. rcmarkablo escape from death in Botchergato, England, lately. The perambulator had been left, fit. tho edge of the pavement by the child's mother when tho went into a thop. Suddenly tho perambulator was whirled into tho middle of the road by the draught of a motor-car sharply turning a corner. Another motorist, driving down the street, made a violent swervo to avoid crashing into it, but his car caught its handle and dashed it to the other side of tho road, where it overturned. People rushed to pick up the child, which was found to bo not only unhurt, but still sleeping. Tho mother, brought from the shop and told of tho accident, calmly remarked, "Oh, bo's sl'ill sleeping, is he?" and returned to completo her shopping.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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