A 20-month-old baby fell out of a 6th floor window, and was miraculously saved by a parked car whose owner decided to bike to work that day

On Wednesday, a boy playing by an open window in Redmond, Seattle, fell six stories onto the roof of a blue Mazda, which broke his fall, Redmond Police said.
The car's owner, Edward Lu, told local media: "If I had driven in today, I don't know what would've happened."
The baby is now in a "serious but stable" condition at the nearby Harborview Medical Center.
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A 20-month-old baby boy fell "60 to 70 feet" from an apartment block window on Wednesday, but miraculously survived when a parked car below broke his fall.

Adding to the baby's fortune, the car's owner Edward Lu told Q13 Fox News in Washington he had debated driving to work that day, but decided to bike instead.

The boy was playing on a mattress by a cracked-open window in an apartment in Redmond, outer Seattle, supervised by his 4-year-old sister, who turned around to find the baby had vanished, Redmond Police spokesman James Perry told Q13.

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The sister then ran to tell her mother in the next room that "something bad had happened," Perry said.

He said the mother immediately called the emergency services, who arrived to find the baby with serious injuries, but mercifully alive. The child was conscious and crying when they arrived, Perry added.

"That's when I found out the kid had fallen on my car," Lu told Q13 Fox News.

The baby was taken to Harborview Medical Center after the fall, police said. A hospital spokesperson told Q13 on Wednesday evening that the baby's condition was "serious but stable."

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Perry told Q13: "It's about 60 to 70 feet. If the car hadn't been there this would've been a completely different story."

"The denting on top of the car actually suggests it absorbed a lot of the impact from the child landing on it."

Speaking to press about the accident outside the Redmond Square Apartments, Lu said: "Yeah you know, if I had driven in today I don't know what would've happened. We're all lucky I guess that I biked in rather than driving."

When asked if he believed in miracles, Lu said: "I can't say I do normally but this time, I don't know how else to term it."

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A 20-month-old baby fell out of a 6th floor window, and was miraculously saved by a parked car whose owner decided to bike to work that day

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