Child standing outside gate has lucky escape as speeding car comes crashing

BENGALURU: A young child miraculously escaped from a speeding car that crashed near the gate of a house in Vidyaranyapura. The incident occurred on Monday morning.

Footage from CCTV shows the speeding car crashing into the gate where the child was standing.

The car, which is seen taking a sharp right turn at 6.20 am, first knocks down a two-wheeler, then a parked car and heads straight towards the child, who was playing outside the gate. But luckily, it misses the child and comes to a halt after hitting an electricity pole. The front portion of the car was badly damaged in the incident.

Parked car damaged and the accident car

The accident was captured on CCTV camera and shows a female driver trying to get down from her seat and collapsing on the ground even as smoke starts coming out of the car. Some locals rushed to help her out of the car. The injured motorcycle rider can also be seen limping towards the crashed car while the family of the child take the injured woman driver inside. The woman lost a few teeth in the incident.