Stroller accidents: Why one must be careful near slopes, tracks, motorways

Here’s why, as parents or caretakers, you have to be extremely careful when you’re near railway tracks or are on a slope, and have to manage a baby in the stroller.

Here are several examples where the caretakers momentarily looked away, assuming that the baby stroller was stationed safely, only to be horrified to see the baby stroller roll onto the train tracks.

Related: Tips to avoid stroller injuries

Fortunately, in all these cases, no trains were around at that time and the parents and bystanders were quickly able to retrieve the strollers in the nick of time. Although in one of the cases, the girl toppled over the edge, plunging head-first onto the tracks. She was later treated for injuries to her face.

Baby in stroller falls onto train tracks in Philadelphia

Stroller With Baby Falls Underneath Moving Train in Australia

Wind blows stroller with baby onto Train Tracks in London, Mom scrambles to save the little one.

And it all happens because the parent looked away for a matter of seconds, when the stroller rolled down the sloping platform. So the next time you’re at a station or crossing the road, be very careful.

Man saves toddler rolling downhill in stroller. Another reason why one needs to be very careful while on a slope.

The Cybex e-Priam is a smart stroller that slows down on its own when going downhill (slope).

Reckless mother with pram and toddler takes shortcut across busy motorway

Shocking footage captures moment a mother crosses busy road with kids
She has a pram and leads toddler as cars reach speeds of 40mph
Lorry driver’s Dash cam filmed the reckless crossing on motorway in Manchester
The driver said it was ‘unbelievable’ and that they were close to being hit

A witness said the woman lifted the toddler over the barrier before going through herself with her baby. In the video, you can see the mother trying to squeeze through a small gap in the the barrier, attempting to cross the Mancunian Way. She is dangerously close to fast cars on the busy stretch in Manchester city centre.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The child was smaller than the barrier, she couldn’t see over it. There were cars whizzing past, accelerating up to 50mph. It was unbelievable,” said the HGV driver who captured the footage.

The video even shows a BMW driving past the child, she could have so easily been hit.

Shop Sign falls on pram

Baby’s pushchair took brunt of the full force after the optician’s sign board from the store in St Mary’s Street, fell from a height of 6 metre (20ft), narrowly missing 10-month-old child in Newport, Shropshire (England).

Medics say the 10-month-old was “one very lucky young boy” as the baby’s pram bore the brunt of the impact; the boy suffered only minor head and leg injuries.

A picture of the pushchair released by the ambulance service showed its buckled canopy.

“The 999 callers described how a shop sign about one metre square had fallen about 20ft from a shop and landed on the pram. On arrival, the crews found the 10-month-old boy and his mother in a nearby shop. The pram appears to have taken the bulk of the force from the sign landing. Thankfully, the little boy escaped serious injury,” Ambulance spokesman.

The child was assessed at the scene and taken to the nearby Princess Royal hospital. West Mercia police were investigating the circumstances and would pass on their findings to the Health and Safety Executive.

Mother tows baby stroller while riding on scooter

A video was uploaded on YouTube that showed a lady on a scooter towing a baby carriage across a busy road. Viewers were horrified to see it and said things like ‘most horrible parenting.’

Can you believe this video?!

However, its not clear whether or not there was actually a child sitting in the stroller.

Lets hope there wasn’t (lets assume the woman had that much common sense).

The woman attempts to cross three lanes of traffic, narrowly missing a sedan. She lets the car pass, then makes her way to the furthest-right lane…meant for slow moving vehicles of course.

This video indeed caught my breath. I just hope there was no child in that stroller, and no one was hurt (towing the stroller with a baby is definitely a no-no).

But on the other hand, if the idea was to transport an empty stroller, then its indeed an innovative idea.

What do you guys think?