A shocking dash cam video caught the moment a child had a miraculous escape after being hurled through a car windscreen.
Her ‘panicking’ mother drove the wrong way down a busy road and collided with another vehicle in Plast, Russia.
The horrific smash left the Russian youngster – believed to be a girl – sitting in snow at the side of the road.
The child, believed to be a girl, smashed through a windscreen after a car collision in on a road near Chelyabinsk, Russia
Astonishingly, given the force of the impact when the mother’s Daewoo Matiz struck a Lada, the child is not believed to be seriously injured, and was seen moving on the snow in the immediate aftermath of the accident.
A witness said: ‘The child had a broken nose, and the mother suffered bruises’.
Dmitry Toshin, whose dash cam filmed the crash in Plast, 79 miles southwest of Chelyabinsk, said: ‘The driver of Matiz car was a woman.
‘I spoke to her, she said the road was slippery, she lost control of the car.
‘She was panicking… The child was in a car seat but was thrown out.’
There was speculation that the belt was not done up.
‘Panicking’: A mother drove the wrong way down a busy road and collided with another vehicle in Plast, Russia. Dmitri Toshin (pictured) recorded the footage on his dashcam
The driver and passenger in the Lada, who were both wearing seat belts, were uninjured, he said.
The mother and daughter were taken to hospital by an ambulance which arrived seven minutes after the smash.
Police are investigating the incident.