Car Skids Off Snowy Road, Finds Missing Toddler

3-year-old had wandered nearly 2 miles from home
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 25, 2013 12:19 PM CST
Car Skids Off Snowy Road, Finds Missing Toddler
Not the car in question.   (Shutterstock)

A car accident turned out to be very lucky in Sweden yesterday: Police officers accidentally skidded off a snowy road into a ditch, only to discover a missing 2-year-old girl, the Local reports. They heard the barefoot, lightly-dressed toddler crying; she had wandered off while playing with her sister three hours before and was almost two miles away from her house. The officers made their way through waist-deep snow to get the child, who was "frozen and sad, but ... didn't need any medical attention," a police spokesperson says. (More Sweden stories.)

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