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Russian baby cheats death in road crash - video
One-year-old hurled from car into the path of lorry manages to survive
A BABY narrowly escaped death after being flung in front of a lorry following a car crash in Russia, in an incident captured on the dashboard camera of a fellow driver.
The footage, which emerged today, shows the one-year-old girl being thrown out of a Mitsubishi car when its driver lost control overtaking another car. The baby landed in the path of a lorry on a road near Nizhny Novgorod, western Russia.
For a second it looks like the child will be flattened and killed as the vehicle approaches - but it misses her. She is then rescued by the Mitsubishi's driver Dmitry Aliev, 53.
Police said the baby had been put on a blanket on the rear window shelf instead of being strapped into a car seat.
According to the Daily Telegraph the girl was treated in hospital for bruises and a concussion after the crash on Sunday but was not seriously injured.
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