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Video shows toddler falling out of van onto busy road

Thankfully he is okay.

VIDEO FOOTAGE HAS emerged of a toddler falling out of a van on a busy road in China.

A dashcam captured the moment a two-year-old boy fell out of the vehicle near Wujiang in the Jiangsu province.

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Witnesses rushed to help the child and brought him to safety.

Chinese media has identified the driver as the child’s grandfather.

Emma Aiden / YouTube

CNN reports that Wujiang Daily, a government-owned local newspaper, said the child had been sitting in the passenger seat, but crawled back in the van as his grandfather drove and accidentally hit a broken lock which opened the boot.

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    Mute Techguy.ie
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:10 PM

    lucky kid

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    Mute Rowe
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:04 PM
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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Mar 3rd 2016, 6:01 PM

    Rowe, that is just demonic…

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    Mute Paul Browne
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:25 PM

    That actually gave me shivers down me spine looking at the poor kid trying to run after the van. Extremely lucky the van wasn’t moving faster

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    Mute Tweed Cap
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:29 PM

    The kid just gets up and keeps walking. Now Ronaldo’s young fella would be a different story altogether

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    Mute ian110664
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:37 PM

    So that is where babies come from—I thought it was a Stork that brought them!

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    Mute Oran Joyce
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:42 PM

    Love the way the kid just picks himself up, dusts himself off and heads off after the van.
    Plucky little fella.
    Respect.

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    Mute Oran Joyce
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:43 PM

    Thank God the traffic was stalled.

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:18 PM

    Holy crap, how scary must that have been?

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    Mute james
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:35 PM

    Spring roll

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    Mute Conor Mac Manus
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:16 PM

    Sure haven’t we all done it at some stage.

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    Mute Alwyn Lee
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:03 PM

    Er….NO!

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    Mute Paddy Ryan
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:04 PM

    When I was a kid parents used to carry 9 to 10 children to a car.. No seatbelts or nothing. How we survived is nothing short of a miracle.Most cars back then had no rear seatbelts anyway and in an “estate car” ie a bartered to death volkswagen we’d be crammed into the boot on the way to mass or school.

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    Mute Chris Creagh
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:21 PM

    Happend to me many moons ago when my mother clipped a path

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    Mute Mel Finn
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:40 PM

    You could keep the child and when questioned say’ it fell off the back of a lorry’

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    Mute lez ferguson
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:00 PM

    That’s China for you

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    Mute Daniel O'Connor
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 3:08 PM

    Hory Shet!!!!

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    Mute Paige Turners
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:19 PM

    Gotta love those trousers!

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    Mute Siobhan Kirby
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 5:40 PM

    Holy shite!!! Lucky baby. Grandfather an arse!!! Watch your grandkids more carefully!!! Baby was soooooo being watched over by someone, or something!!!

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    Mute The Viking
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 2:37 PM

    Eh.. child seats please…

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    Mute David Hefner
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    Mar 3rd 2016, 2:04 AM

    You need s licence for a dog, but not a kid.

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    Mute Syd
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    Mar 2nd 2016, 1:17 PM

    At least he was driving fast

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Mar 3rd 2016, 6:00 PM

    Child care in China has gone down hill especially if the child is a girl?

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