A woman has used her walking cane to save a young boy from being skittled by cars after stopping him from crossing into oncoming traffic in Melbourne\u2019s southwest. <\/p>\n
Rebecca Cooper was on her way to buy a lottery ticket on Morris Rd in Hoppers Crossing when a young child came hurdling around the corner. <\/p>\n
Dashcam footage showed the child running around the corner of a street and towards the oncoming traffic. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is there a small child?\u201d the driver asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait, stop, stop stop,\u201d Ms Cooper could be heard as she opened the car door.<\/p>\n
Ms Coopers, who lives with Multiple sclerosis (MS) and Crohn’s disease, relies on a walking stick and was unable to run out of the car. <\/p>\n
Instead, she used her cane to stop the child in his tracks before scooping him up in her arms. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was so fast, he had that run, like he was forward-facing and he was just off,\u201d she told 7News. <\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t run because I have a walking stick, so I got out (of the car) and I just then just grabbed my walking stick and used it to pull the poor little kid in.\u201d <\/p>\n
She said while she usually \u201chates\u201d using her walking stick, \u201cit came in handy\u201d. <\/p>\n
The young boy\u2019s mother barrelled behind the runaway child shortly later, grabbing her son to safety.<\/p>\n
Ms Cooper said the incident unfolded so quick the mum didn\u2019t have a chance to say thank you.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was pretty distraught,\u201d Ms Cooper said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think she was just thinking \u2018I\u2019ve got my child back\u2019 because she really grabbed him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has used her walking cane to save a young boy from being skittled by cars after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40509,46517,24596,40379,38038,46512,46515,46516,46522,46530,37136,46520,46529,9214,34176,2331,46513,2692,3957,46505,46504,37396,46528,46521,46514,42473,41093,7750,260,46503,10820,46526,6218,46525,46519,379,46524,46508,46518,46527,46509,46523,46501,37951,39924,37471,36531,46531,46506,46507,46510,46511,46502,12205,10469],"class_list":["post-54050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-s-mother","tag-s-southwest","tag-7news","tag-a-chance","tag-a-child","tag-a-hero","tag-a-lottery-ticket","tag-a-small-child","tag-a-street","tag-a-walking-stick","tag-a-woman","tag-a-young-boy","tag-a-young-child","tag-boy","tag-cane","tag-cars","tag-crohn","tag-dashcam-footage","tag-disease","tag-her-arms","tag-her-cane","tag-her-son","tag-her-walking","tag-her-walking-cane","tag-her-walking-stick","tag-her-way","tag-his-tracks","tag-hoppers-crossing","tag-melbourne","tag-morris-rd","tag-ms","tag-ms-cooper","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-my-child","tag-my-walking-stick","tag-newswire-news","tag-oncoming-cars","tag-oncoming-traffic","tag-rebecca-cooper","tag-safety-ms","tag-that-run","tag-the-car","tag-the-car-door-ms-coopers","tag-the-child","tag-the-corner","tag-the-driver","tag-the-incident","tag-the-mum","tag-the-oncoming-traffic","tag-the-path","tag-the-poor-little-kid","tag-the-runaway-child","tag-the-young-boy","tag-woman","tag-young-boy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}