A baby has miraculously survived a horrific road accident that saw her ripped from her mother's womb and thrown on the grass. / EPTV
A baby has miraculously survived a horrific road accident that saw her ripped from her mother's womb and thrown on the grass.
The heavily pregnant woman was a passenger in a truck carrying planks of wood.
The driver lost control and capsized on a motorway near Cajati, between Sao Pauloand Curitiba in southeast Brazil, the MailOnline reported.
As a result of the impact the mother was thrown from the truck's cabin before being crushed by the wood that the truck was carrying.
A baby, named Giovanna by hospital staff, has miraculously survived a horrific road accident that saw her ripped from her mother's womb and thrown on the grass.
This tore the baby from the womb, leaving shocked medics to discover a crying baby girl on a grass verge metres away from her mother, according to reports.
The infant was found without a scratch and her umbilical cord appeared to have severed during the crash.
The girl is now being treated at Pariquera-Acu regional hospital's neonatal intensive care ward.
Her mother was 39 weeks pregnant at the time and without any documents.
Police and social services are reportedly trying to identify the child's dead mother.
The driver, Jonathan Ferreira, has been charged with manslaughter. He told rescue crews that he didn't know the woman and was only giving her a lift.
They have appealed for relatives of the woman. If none are found, she will be buried as unidentified and the baby girl will be sent to an orphanage and put up for adoption, according to police .
Elton Fernando Barbosa, the paramedic who was first on the scene of the accident on the BR-116 highway on Thursday, told Brazil's A Tribuna newspaper that the accident was series.
Mr Barbosa said that the driver was seen to by first-aid and he looked for the deceased.
He said: "I went looking for the fatal victim who was underneath the wood, when I heard the cries of a baby. It was which total apprehension, because there had been no reports of a third victim."
He said he found the baby several metres away from the mother, and quickly called for an ambulance to take her to hospital.
He even said it was a miracle that the little girl survived.
The girl's mother was travelling in a truck loaded with wood when the driver lost control of the vehicle.
Mr Barabosa said: "I'll be honest. It was God. By what I saw, I have no idea how she came out alive. The mother was underneath several planks of wood. I don't know how this child got out of their with her life."
He said it was emotional and while they couldn't save the mother they did save the child.
Staff have given the baby the name Giovanna which means 'protected by God', according to Solange Batista, a nurse at the Pariquera-Acu hospital.
