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16th Jan 2019

Terrifying footage shows car seat with two-year-old fall out of moving car on busy street

Jade Hayden

Honestly horrifying.

Footage showing a car seat with a two-year-old strapped into it fall out of a moving car has emerged online.

The video, taking from a truck driver’s dashcam in Minnesota, shows the toddler falling from the car as it turns a corner on a busy Mankato street.

The child was, miraculously, not injured.

Driver Chad Mock told Fox News that when he saw the car seat fall from the car, he assumed it was a doll strapped into it.

“The car seat came out and pretty much dropped straight down, and instead of – luckily – not landing on the child, it actually landed on the car seat itself.

“It actually took all of its force.”

Mock pulled over once he saw what had happened to remove the child from traffic.

“There was no apparent injury to the child; the child was not crying,” he said. “It was not upset too badly, especially given the circumstance.”

It was 20 minutes before the child’s “hysterical” mother returned to the scene, not having realised what had happened.

It remains unclear who was driving the car, or how the car seat was ejected from the moving vehicle.

No charges have been filed in relation to the accident.