By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
SURVEILLANCE cameras captured a toddler wandering into a busy highway in Arizona, nearly getting hit by passing cars before being rescued by a good Samaritan.
The terrifying moment unfolded Friday in an intersection in Mesa that is always very busy. The 2-year-old boy wearing nothing but a diaper ran across the street.
Two oncoming cars swerved and narrowly avoided hitting the toddler before another woman was able to bring the boy to safety.
The toddler’s father, Alexander Schabel, says he wasn’t home at the time of the incident.
The child’s mother was watching five kids when she left to go to the gas station.
“She took the big kids down there. She says that the kids were sleeping. I don’t know if they were or not, but she didn’t lock the door,” Schabel said.
He says he was alerted to the situation by his Ring doorbell that showed a stranger on his porch.
“Some random lady was holding my baby. She was like your kid almost got run over in the street.”
Schabel says he’s relieved his child is home safe.
“People need to pay attention while they’re driving because things like that could happen.”
Neighbors are grateful the incident did not end in tragedy.
The Arizona Department of Child Safety is investigating the incident. No arrests have been made and the boy has been returned safely to his grandmother.
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