Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
MIRACLE ESCAPE
Boy, 4, scrambles to safety from car crash as driver trapped inside
A Four-year-old boy has had a miracle escape after scrambling to safety from a serious car crash.
The youngster was travelling with a male driver when the one-vehicle accident happened four miles from Portrush on Ballybogey Road in Co Antrim yesterday.
Emergency services attended the scene and arrived to find the child outside the car with the driver still trapped inside.
The boy was taken to safety as the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, assisted by the PSNI, worked at the scene.
Fire officers used cutting equipment to release the driver from the car which had flipped on to its side.
Both the man and the boy were initially treated at the scene by an Ambulance Service Rapid Response Paramedic and members of two A&E crews.
They were later taken to Causeway Area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said: “We received a 999 call at 2.15pm on Sunday 10 June following reports a car had overturned on the Ballybogey Road with two occupants inside.
“NIAS despatched a Rapid Response Paramedic and two A&E crews to the scene assisted by Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue crews and PSNI.
“Two patients – one adult and one child – were assessed and after treatment at the scene were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”