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- Woman tells of rescuing baby hit by train
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A WOMAN who helped rescue a baby hit by a Melbourne train says the unsung hero is a teenage boy who pulled the helpless infant free.
Amanda has told Fox FMâs Matt and Jo Show that she was still stunned by the amazing survival of the six-month boy, and says âit really was a miracleâ that the boy was not killed by the passenger train last week, the Herald Sun reports.
The motherâs anguish as the boyâs pram rolled off the platform and onto the tracks as a 250 tonne train pulled in to Ashburton Railway Station was captured on CCTV.
Amanda says she wanted the world to recognise the unsung hero of it all was an unknown teenage boy who leapt under the train after the pram fell in front of the 4pm train and was dragged 30m.
Incredibly, the child survived the impact.
Amanda, a regular jogger was running by the railway station as the train was arrived, and glanced over to the platformâs clock when she saw a âcommotionâ.
She half-realised she had seen something fall on the tracks.
âI remember the train coming in and a sort of commotion on the platform and then heard the mum screaming.
I ran down to the tracks because we knew that something was horribly wrong.â
Seconds later she was under the front of the train, checking the little boy for injuries as his hysterical mum thought the worst.
âI looked under the train and there was a young boy already under there unstrapping the baby. It was so brave of him.â
âHe just handed the baby to me ⦠and I checked the baby over (and) asked if anybody else knew first aid.
The distraught mum then leapt down onto the tracks as she emerged from under the train.
âShe was just shaking and screaming. Just screaming,â Amanda said.
Amanda gave the teen the baby as she helped the mother back on to the platform where the mother was able to hold her baby boy realise he was still alive.
âIt really was a miracle. He really was fine. He had quite a big bump on side of his head, but that was it. And then we just waited for the ambulance, which felt like forever but apparently it wasnât.â
Amanda said the incident kept playing itself in her mind.
I don't think it's something I'd ever forget.
The father has said his family had been extremely traumatised by the incident but extremely relieved at his son's survival, as talkshow powerhouse Oprah Winfrey led an international bidding war for an interview with his wife.
My wife has seen the footage, but every time she sees it she gets very upset, the man, who asked not to be identified, said last week.
âWe are all OK - my wife and my baby are OK - but we really just need some time to get over this.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26 ... 21,00.html
