The guard rail tangled in the car. Picture: Bill Hearne Source: The Daily Telegraph
A FAMILY road trip has ended centimetres from tragedy when their out of control car left the road and became entangled in a guard rail in Sydney?s north west early this morning.
A mother in her thirties and her three children, aged one, three and five, all walked away from the crash in West Pennant Hills with minor injuries.
Just down the hill from a set of lights at the intersection of Eaton Road and Pennant Hills Road 20 metres of guard rail was wiped out and strewn across the footpath showing the Toyota’s path of devastation.
The guard rail just misses every family member in the car. Picture: Bill Hearne Source: The Daily Telegraph
Amongst the mess of twisted metal the rail pierced and speared its way through the front windscreen and out the left tail light grazing the cheek of a child in a booster seat in between.
“The kids’ had a lucky day,” one officer at the scene said.
“The rail glanced the side of the young girl’s face.”
Emergency services shook their heads in disbelief that nobody had died such was the complex devastation wrought to the car by the metal railing twisting in and out of it.
At the roadside the mother held her children as they were cared for by paramedics with one little girl wrapped in a blanket and helped onto a stretcher before being wheeled into an ambulance.
As the family was looked after a procession of semi-trailers and oversized trucks slowly motored past craning their necks to view the roadside carnage.
A pole narrowly misses a child. Picture: Bill Hearne Source: The Daily Telegraph
The distraught mother was seen on her phone while her remaining son and daughter sat peacefully to the side of the wreck seemingly oblivious to how close to serious harm they had come.
After they had been checked out they were put into the ambulance along with their sister and the family was taken to Westmead Children’s Hospital with injuries including a suspected fractured arm and cuts and bruising to the face.
A roadside breath test came back negative with police suspecting fatigue was a factor in the crash.
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