Mom saves baby after stroller rolls onto tracks

You’ll never see a mom move as fast as she does when her child is in trouble.
Earlier this week a mother leaped after her child when her stroller rolled off a Philadelphia train platform and onto the tracks below.

A surveillance camera caught the whole thing. The jogging stroller starts to roll away and the mother, who appears to be distracted, notices just as the stroller topples over about 5 feet below.


She jumped down onto the tracks, unstrapped her 14-month-old daughter and handed her to another awaiting passenger who ran over to help. Yet another bystander hits the emergency call button to alert officials, and stop the oncoming train. Everyone was hustling to help this child.

As I watched the video I literally gasped watching the stroller fall off the platform (which are slanted for drainage purposes). I can’t imagine what must have been going through that mother’s mind, but I sure as heck would have jumped in after my child—I’d like to think after any child—just as fast.
If that’s not terrifying enough, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened and been caught on video. It’s occurred at least twice before in Australia in 2009 and in 2010. In both of those situations the train came and ran over the strollers, but miraculously, the children were ok.
The little girl in Wednesday’s accident went to the hospital to be treated for a cut on her head, but she’s ok as well.

Thank goodness none of these cases ended tragically, but it’s still frightening to watch, and horrifying to think what could have been.

With stories like these, it’s easy to want to blame the mother for not paying attention, but I can’t help but feel like this could happen to anyone. It only took seven seconds for this baby to roll off a platform. It’s a reminder to us all to keep our stroller wheels locked, and remember that anything can happen in a matter of seconds.

My faith in humanity was a bit restored watching as how so many people jumped in to help this mother.

I’m sure we’d all jump off a platform to save our babies, but what if it was someone else’s would you help them?

Original Found here.. http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/mother-saves-baby-after-stroller-rolls-onto-train-05182013-tracks/