Cara Steele, 34, said Albie's rear-facing seat prevented him from being internally decapitated (Image: MEN media)
Cara Steele’s 18-month-old son Albie was securely strapped into his seat in the back of her car when a pick-up truck ploughed into the Vauxhall Astra Estate from behind. The impact was so fierce the entire boot of her car was crushed inwards towards where little Albie was sitting in his rear-facing car seat. In a detailed post on social media that has been shared thousands of times, Ms Steele, 34, said her son miraculously escaped with little more than a few cuts and bruises and an X-ray showed she had no fractures.
But a paramedic and a traffic officer told her if the child’s seat had been facing towards the front of the car it could have been fatal.
The teacher said her boy could have been “internally decapitated” - a term referring to when the ligaments attaching the skull to the spine are severed.
The often-fatal injury is rare but children are more likely to suffer it in a crash than adults. Less than a third of cases do not result in immediate death.
Ms Steele was just one mile away from her home in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, when the crash happened on Monday night.
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