Nov 3, 2009 10:00 am US/Eastern
Toddler Survives Being Dragged By Train
One-Year-Old Girl's Stroller Dragged, Dropped Onto Train Bed
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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A 1-year-old girl's stroller got caught in the doors of a CTA train at the Morse Avenue Red Line stop Monday, sending the girl into the train track beds.
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A 1-year-old girl Chicago remains hospitalized Tuesday morning, after a
train dragged her stroller and threw her into the track beds as her
mother watched in horror.
The incident occurred about 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Red Line's Morse station in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
Witnesses told police the child's mother and the child were rushing to catch a southbound train and they ran up the stairs to the platform. They tried to board but the train's door closed onto the stroller with the child in it -- becoming stuck -- and the train began moving while the mother was still on the platform, police said.
The mother told police she ran after the train holding onto the stroller but she fell. She saw the stroller turn sideways and the child's head strike the platform several times as the child was dragged by the train, police said.
Witnesses heard a woman scream and say, "The train took my baby!'' according to police, who said the child -- who was not strapped into the stroller -- was thrown from the stroller and fell to the ground onto the gravel track bed.
Police News Affairs John Mirabelli said the child did not fall onto the tracks, according to CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago.
A man and a wife saw what happened and the man ran with the baby's mother to help her pick the child up from the ground, police said. A Chicago Fire Department ambulance transported the girl to Children's Memorial Hospital where she was in stable condition, according to police, who said the child may have suffered a concussion.
The girl remained at Children's Memorial as of the 5 a.m. hour Tuesday.
The train kept going and it wasn't until several stops later, at the Berwyn station, that the operator was aware of what happened, according to police.
Police said the fact the child was not strapped into the stroller may have saved her life.
"God was looking out for that baby. That could have ended horribly,'' police said.
Police said there is a signal on a train that should activate if the train was moving with a door open and that it would be up to the CTA to investigate.
At 4:30 a.m. Tuesday CTA spokeswoman Kim Myles said "the cause remained under investigation."
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