uk Miracle girl hit by 100mph express train lives

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Dad carried Scarlett into the path of train

Little Scarlett Shaw is back on her feet - just four months after being hit by a 100mph train.

Scarlett, three, was not expected to live after dad Richard walked in front of the express with her in his arms. He died but his daughter was found breathing on the track by a train guard.

She was airlifted to hospital where she had 13 hours of surgery on her shattered leg and arm. She also needed skin grafts. But Scarlett is now learning to walk with a frame, has started at nursery and is back to her cheerful self, revealed mum Samantha Roberts, 25. She said: "To think of the train's speed, her recovery is incredible."

Samantha said of July's horror: "Nobody spelled it out but I knew she could die. I couldn't see her until the next day. She was like a sleeping angel. When she said 'Mummy' days later I knew it was all right."

The mum, who was separated from Richard, 28, thanked The Sick Children's Trust for giving her accommodation close to Scarlett at Sheffield Children's Hospital for 45 days.

And she doesn't blame Richard for the horror in Doncaster. Police are still investigating why he did it, but she said: "Richard loved Scarlett. He was just in a very bad place for this to happen. He's still her daddy and she loves him."

Source - The Sun

[Farstrider]

Unbelievable! Why do people, when they feel the need to cap themselves, take innocents with them?? Go for it Scarlett, I hope you get better soon!

[MarkusDarkus]

I guarantee the train was not travelling at 100mph when she was hit! I mean when have you ever seen a Virgin or Cross Country train break 80mph in an area with people. AFAIK they only do speeds above that up to 140mph in the countryside where the track is straight enough.

How so you spell /sen?s?SH?nl?iz?m/ again?

[Muhammad Farrukh]

I hope she gets better soon and is ready to play with her friends again

[@Leo]

"Miracle" :rolleyes:

I guess "god" was generous?

How about we call miracles everyone that don't get hurt?

[nitins60]

I guarantee the train was not travelling at 100mph when she was hit! I mean when have you ever seen a Virgin or Cross Country train break 80mph in an area with people. AFAIK they only do speeds above that up to 140mph in the countryside where the track is straight enough.

How so you spell /sen?s?SH?nl?iz?m/ again?

There are many miracles like this. Person who touched 10000Volts line is also alive (where he's supposed to be ash within second).

and that's why they are called MIRACLES

[MLIFE]

There are many miracles like this. Person who touched 10000Volts line is also alive (where he's supposed to be ash within second).

and that's why they are called MIRACLES

It isn't the voltage which kills.

[MarkusDarkus]

It isn't the voltage which kills.

+1

If the train hit at 100mph she wouldn't have been sent flying into the air and there would have been multiple devastating impacts from the train and whatever she would have hit flying through the air. She would have been literally crushed by the amount of energy transferred! I'm really glad she is OK but remember the adverts about killing your speed to 30mph because 40 can kill...

[Growled Member]

I think her dad's body shielded her from the worst of it. Still, it's close enough to a miracle for me.

[Wolfbane]

Awesome title.

To take it to a further extreme, it's like saying you got hit by a Mach 3 jet and survived even though in reality it was only taxiing.

There are many miracles like this. Person who touched 10000Volts line is also alive (where he's supposed to be ash within second).

and that's why they are called MIRACLES

Why do you assume that because you don't understand something, it's a "miracle"?

It's already been said, but no matter how bad a place the father was in, nothing justifies him trying to kill his daughter.

[Detection]

I think her dad's body shielded her from the worst of it. Still, it's close enough to a miracle for me.

^^ This - She would more than likely had a foot of muscle and body as a cushion, incredible reading stories like this, like when the toddler fell off the hotel balcony and landed on the only 2ft sq piece of grass in the concrete car park 5 floors below.

And people think no-one watches over us ;)

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Scarlett, three, was not expected to live after dad Richard walked in front of the express with her in his arms.

:blink:

Incredible story, and she is a lucky girl to have survived, but it is from The Sun - they practically invented the word "sensationalism."