A toddler who hurtled down an escalator on a trike broke his nose when he came flying off it into a stand having escaped a play area at a shopping centre in India.
The three-year-old, named as Abhiram, was playing in a children’s area near the escalators on the toy when he left under the nose of his father and and headed for the moving ramp.
He went riding down the escalator but started going too fast and crashed into a stand, sending him flying off the trike.
The Bizarre incident happened in the Kachiguda Big Bazar Mall in Hyderabad, India, and was captured on CCTV footage, prompting the father to lodge a complaint with the local police force.
The toddler, named as Abhiram, is seen at the top of the escalator in the Indian shopping mall
It is reported the boy’s parents have now lodged a complaint against the shopping centre’s staff.
Dad Sudhakar, his wife and two children went to the shopping centre together and the parents left the children in the unsupervised play area while they browsed the shops.
The boy left on the trike and was left bleeding from the mouth and suffered a fractured nose, it has been reported.
The father said: ‘I was unaware Abhiram had an accident because I was looking at a toy for my other son.
‘Abhiram was only a few feet away from me when he got on the ramp, but I did not notice.
‘Only after looking for him for some time that I noticed someone had had a mishap.
‘When I went to see what was going on, I saw Abhiram bleeding.’
Nobody has even noticed the boy is half way down the escalator and on his way to crashing into the stand at the bottom
After hearing him clattering into the stand, those in the shopping centre rush to help him
He said he received no help in attending to his son from shopping centre staff.
He continued: ‘I had to move to four different hospitals, before Lotus Hospital, Lakidikapul, admitted my injured son.
‘The reason I lodged a police complaint is to make sure that such incidents do not repeat and it is the responsibility of the mall management to man the ramps.’
Inspector P Shiva Shankar Rao said there had been ‘clear negligence on part of boy’s parents and not the mall management’.
The police officer said: ‘We got the complaint against the mall but they are not at fault.
‘So, no case was registered against the mall.’