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MUM’S HORROR MY BABY WAS TRAPPED IN A BURNING CAR

Chyna Watson, 21, Hamilton, NZ

Driving to work, I peered at my boy Cooper in the rear-view mirror.

He was happily gurgling away in his baby capsule.

I’d returned to my job as an admin officer at a nearby hospital when he was four months old.

Now he was 10 months and I was dropping him at daycare before my shift.

But as I went around a corner, there was black ice on the road.

Suddenly, I careened off the tarmac.

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