Youngster Saved by Tyres

An Ohio child’s fall from a third-floor window was broken by a small pile of tyres fortuitously placed beneath the bedroom window. According to eye-witnesses, the errant boy had been bouncing on his mother’s bed when he rebounded at a skewed angle, throwing himself kamikaze-like through the shattering window.

The youngster’s neighbour then saw the child plummet, somersaulting towards the ground until he miraculously landed sideways on the tyre stack, bouncing the boy forward. The Columbus resident was expected to make a full recovery, but it could have been a very different story had it not been for the rubber cushion that broke his fall.