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A mother had the fright of her life when she saw the family car disappear down the driveway with her two-year-old son behind the wheel.
Althea Nicol of Rockhampton in central coastal Queensland said her son Ethan escaped without a scratch despite the car being written-off after crashing through the front fence of the family home and smashing into two other vehicles.
Mrs Nicol said she was standing in her kitchen with a friend when she saw the car go past with Ethan, the youngest of seven children, standing behind the wheel.
"I just started screaming because I knew that even if I ran outside and caught up to it I'd never be able to stop it," Mrs Nicol said.
"We have a steep driveway, the car went down that, smashed through a picket fence, turned in a big arc on the roadway, smashed into a neighbour's parked Commodore, bounced off that then hit a van parked two doors down the street.
"It was the most frightening thing I have ever seen in my life."
Mrs Nicol said when she reached the car she found her son lying on the floor in the front.
"I don't know whether he fell down or climbed down there, but the ambulance people told me that's what probably saved him from any injury," Mrs Nicol said.
"He hasn't got a scratch on him."
She said because of the steepness of her driveway and the street outside, it was estimated her 20-year-old Falcon station wagon was travelling at about 20kph when it hit the Commodore.
"Both cars are write-offs," Mrs Nicol said.
She said she believed her son had climbed into the car after a friend's child had left the door open while collecting a pair of shoes.
"He's just decided to do what he's seen mummy do and he put the car out of gear," Mrs Nicol said.
"He must have a guardian angel or nine lives."
©AAP 2003
Althea Nicol of Rockhampton in central coastal Queensland said her son Ethan escaped without a scratch despite the car being written-off after crashing through the front fence of the family home and smashing into two other vehicles.
Mrs Nicol said she was standing in her kitchen with a friend when she saw the car go past with Ethan, the youngest of seven children, standing behind the wheel.
"I just started screaming because I knew that even if I ran outside and caught up to it I'd never be able to stop it," Mrs Nicol said.
"We have a steep driveway, the car went down that, smashed through a picket fence, turned in a big arc on the roadway, smashed into a neighbour's parked Commodore, bounced off that then hit a van parked two doors down the street.
"It was the most frightening thing I have ever seen in my life."
Mrs Nicol said when she reached the car she found her son lying on the floor in the front.
"I don't know whether he fell down or climbed down there, but the ambulance people told me that's what probably saved him from any injury," Mrs Nicol said.
"He hasn't got a scratch on him."
She said because of the steepness of her driveway and the street outside, it was estimated her 20-year-old Falcon station wagon was travelling at about 20kph when it hit the Commodore.
"Both cars are write-offs," Mrs Nicol said.
She said she believed her son had climbed into the car after a friend's child had left the door open while collecting a pair of shoes.
"He's just decided to do what he's seen mummy do and he put the car out of gear," Mrs Nicol said.
"He must have a guardian angel or nine lives."
©AAP 2003
ack -- glad the toddler is ok
