Baby rescued from wreckage of overturned car after crash

A baby was rescued from a wrecked car after the vehicle flipped onto its roof.[1] Paramedics rushed to the scene in Welling, London[2], on Sunday after a car flipped following a crash at around 6.30am. Emergency services freed a woman and a baby from the wrecked car and rushed the pair to hospital.

The Metropolitan Police [3]confirmed that the woman and child were taken to hospital as a “precaution”, and that their injuries were “not critical”. Images from the scene of the crash show a white vehicle with the front portion of the roof crushed against the road close to a traffic island on which the cone has been flattened. Glass debris from the broken windows of the car was scattered across tarmac on Okehampton Crescent, a residential street in the Borough of Bexley in south east London.

The road was taped off by police after Met officers, who were sent to the scene alongside firefighters with the London Fire Service, and London Ambulance service paramedics. Despite the car flipping and the windows shattering in the crash, emergency services have reported that neither the woman nor the baby suffered serious injuries.

‘No arrest’

A spokesman for the Met Police said: “Police were called by ambulance colleagues at 6.28am on December 10 to an overturned car in St Michael’s Rise junction with Okehampton Crescent, Welling. “Officers attended along with LAS and LFB.

A woman and a baby were taken to hospital as a precaution. Their injuries are not believed to be critical. There has been no arrest.”

Incidents in which cars flip, known as vehicle rollovers, may often prove more dangerous than other kinds of crash, as the roof may collapse inward and cause fatal head injuries for the occupants.

Statistics from the US Department of Transportation shows that 30 per cent of all passenger deaths in car crashes are a result of the vehicle rolling over.

References

1. ^ vehicle flipped onto its roof. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2. ^ London (www.telegraph.co.uk)
3. ^ The Metropolitan Police (www.telegraph.co.uk)