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Three schoolgirls have miraculously escaped with their lives after an out-of-control car ploughed into them as they walked home from school with the terrifying moment was captured on CCTV.
Initial investigations indicate about 3.30pm, a white Ford Falcon allegedly struck three pedestrians on Harris Street in Bellbird Park, Ipswich, before crashing through a fence and into a tree, Queensland Police Service (QPS) said.
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WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Car fishtails into school girls on sidewalk
The footage shows the moment the car loses control, fishtailing down the street with tyres screeching before veering up onto the footpath into the group.
Seconds later, a panicked mother’s voice pierces the chaos.
“You just hit my daughter!”
Jade Newton’s daughters and a friend were just metres from home.
She had just turned onto the street when she spotted the car skidding.
“I seen the car, I seen them losing control … and I remembered the girls were on the footpath,” she told 7NEWS.
“I looked over and my daughters were in the air.”
Miraculously, all three girls survived nearly unharmed, with only one sustaining minor injuries.
Kiarrah Buttery, Newton’s daughter, has only a sore arm.
“All I could see was the car coming towards us,” Kiaarrah said.
“So our friend who was walking with us — my first instinct was just to get them out of the way.”
Behind the wheel of the Ford Falcon was a teenage boy, a red P-plater, reportedly with two friends in the car.
Jade’s partner, Eligh Bryett, said it looked like reckless showing off.
“He had two friends with him so I can only assume he was showing off.”
“It was just … unimaginable.”
While the physical injuries were minor, the fear and trauma remain raw for Newton and her daughters.
“You get behind the wheel of a car, you’re putting everybody else’s lives around you in your hands,” Newton said.
Kirrah’s younger sister, Delilah, was one of the girls hit by the car.
However, she expressed more concern for the driver than herself.
“I was scared that Mum was going to hurt that boy … he’s just in high school.”
“I didn’t want his mum to ground him.”
Newton said she usually isn’t spiritual, but the close call it made her think.
“Normally I’d say guardian angels are just a load of crap, but somebody was watching over them.”
Investigations into the circumstance of the incident are ongoing.
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