A WOMAN has told how she heard a toddler's screams as she fell from the second-storey window of a flat onto the pavement.
The little one, two, was hurt falling from a home in Ringwood, Hampshire at 1.30pm yesterday.
Claire Cotton told of how she heard the toddler's screams and saw her 'distraught' mother looking out from the window from which her child had fallen just seconds earlier – before dashing to her aid.
Mother of six Mrs Cotton added it could have been worse – with the girl landing just a few feet away from the main road outside the window of her home in Ringwood, Hants.
The flat is one of a block of five overlooking busy Chichester Road, with the entrance to the flats – each valued at around £225,000 – round a side road.
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Mrs Cotton, 47, from the nearby village of Hurn in the New Forest, said: "I was driving to collect my daughter from her sixth form when I witnessed the fall…
"It was a truly heartbreaking thing to witness for everyone and the poor mother was just distraught…
"It was lucky the child landed on the pavement rather than the road, or I dread to think what might have happened.
"Everyone just stopped. Someone called an ambulance and shouted for the parents.
"The poor mum looked out of the window and ran down the stairs at lightning speed."
Ms Cotton, who works as a florist, added: "I felt so bad for her. I have a large family of my own and with little ones it only takes a second for them to be doing something they shouldn't be.
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"The little one was screaming, which, having seen them fall, I took as a good sign.
"I just hope and pray that baby is OK."
Neighbours said they believe the family were still in hospital with their daughter and described seeing multiple police and ambulance vehicles after the incident, which occurred at around 1:30pm.
A spokesman for the South Central Ambulance Service said the air ambulance landed nearby after the horror.
The girl was taken to hospital by road ambulance.
"The air ambulance team travelled with the patient – a two-year-old girl who had fallen from a first-floor window – in an ambulance to University Hospital Southampton," he said.
The spokesman was unable to confirm the child's condition.
The shocking incident comes just days after the town was rocked by reports two men had tried to abduct a child.
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Police were called to residential area The Mount on May 11 after a mum and her two-year-old daughter were approached by two men.
One of the men picked up the girl and ran with her towards a nearby housing estate, cops say.
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He let go after being bitten on the leg by the dog.
Anyone with information on the incident, which took place between 10.40am and 10.50am, should contact Hampshire Constabulary.
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