When a man spotted this small child standing on a busy road he got out of the car and approached
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A dedicated video gamer it can be safely assumed that Ohio man
Doyle Higgins has seen many an alarming and potentially deadly scenario on screen
But now he has a life-or-death situation from reality that he can watch whenever the mood takes him
Thanks to his dash mounted camera the 46 year old was driving in his hometown of Cincinnati
Ohio in the spring of 2016
When an unexpected sight in his windshield forced him to brake the gamer was utterly shocked to see a toddler
Standing right in the middle of the busy road ahead and for the wee one. It was almost game over on
Saturday April 23rd 2016
Higgins and his wife Nancy were returning home after a grocery shopping trip to their local Kroger
It was a sunny spring afternoon and it can only be presumed that their journey by Jeep through Cincinnati had gone without a hitch at
Least it may have done until they turned that fateful corner on the fair road in the Delhi Township
The exact time of the turning manoeuvre is recorded for posterity on the footage from Higgins recently purchased dashcam
He was Road trailing the technology
But little did the driver know that the resulting images would test the nerves of so many parents
Indeed when Higgins subsequently uploaded the sequence to YouTube it would send shivers down the spines of moms and dads
worldwide
The driver using his alias mr.
Bulldozer gaming posted the clip on the day of the incident it opens with the turn on the fair road
and then we notice a tiny dark mass where it shouldn't be in the middle of the road the
footage continues as the car approaches the mystery object and it quickly becomes clear that it is in fact a very small child the
Car comes to an abrupt halt as presumably these shocked Higgins
Fully take in what they're seeing in a news item broadcast the following Tuesday
Higgins spoke to local TV channel Fox 19
He told reporter Michael Baldwin that it took Nancy and himself a few moments to process. What was going on
I had to actually look at the baby three times. He admitted. I couldn't believe what I was seeing
nevertheless the dashcam footage
Rolls on and we can see what Higgins did next he leaps from his car and makes his way down the suburban road
Towards the child the toddler seemingly has no idea of the peril that she in fact at one point the infant even starts waving
Happily to Higgins and his wife
mercifully however other drivers have also spotted the tiny obstacle by this point and
Cars on the opposite side of the road have also come to a stop
This lessens the risk to the baby boy in Higgins who's soon within reaching distance of her
the concerned adult later claimed that he was calling out to the rows of houses on either side of the road hoping to rouse the
little girl's parents
Indeed Higgins were called the scene to fox19
So I got out of our vehicle and I walked down to the toddler
He said and I'm screaming the whole time down there whose baby. Is this whose baby is this and nobody ever comes out
The dashcam clip then shows Higgins reached the little mite and scooped her up
The gamer scores countless points by carrying the little girl safely to the side of the road as he does so a panic-stricken woman
Emerges running from an adjacent house and takes the toddler into her arms it
Turned out that the no doubt grateful woman was the baby's mom
Reportedly the mom had explained to his how her infant had ended up in the middle of the road
The Guardian said that the last thing she knew was that her baby girl had been safely asleep
The presumably immensely relieved parent had no idea that her wee one had escaped and then gone walkabout
until she heard Higgins cries
It was then that the mom rushed out of the house to check and see if her toddler was in trouble
Apparently the baby was taking a nap and the baby got out of the house Higgins related to Fox 19
I don't know how the baby got out of the house, but again things happen and
Higgins firmly believed that the little girl had a massive piece of luck to escape her traffic adventure unscathed I see people on a regular
Basis driving around with their cell phones in their hands
He told the news cameras and fair road is known for people speeding down the road
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Relief Diggins added if someone would have made that turn and just gunned their car looking at their cell phone as small as that
Baby is chances
Are they wouldn't have ever seen that child, but thankfully the gamer was able to rescue the toddler before any harm could be done
Even though he'd managed to return the toddler safely to her mom Higgins felt that he should cover himself and still report the incident
consequently law enforcers from the Delhi Police Department arrived at the fair road scene in a matter of minutes in
Michael Baldwin's news item the reporter revealed that the local cops were looking into the episode
The Delhi police would then pass their findings over to the district prosecutor's office, however, it's unclear
What happened next and it's not known what actions if any were taken against the mom
Nevertheless that wasn't the end of the story
Higgins encounter with the toddler shook him so much that he took the decision to release his dashcam footage on YouTube
He hoped it would lead other guardians to become more vigilant over their children's whereabouts
In the video description mr.. Bulldozer gaming wrote this baby could have got hit or taken
And they wouldn't have had a clue in a warning to all parents he added people
I don't care what you're doing know where your kids are it only takes a second and your kids can be gone or worse dead
Higgins was eager to stress that he had not posted the footage in order to shame the child's mother
The purpose of this video is to shock people so maybe they'll pay more attention to their kids
He said many people are too wrapped up in their lives from cell phones and other things
When you have kids and definitely as little as this one. That's the only thing you should be worried about and
It seems that Higgins, please have resonated with YouTube users since he posted the terrifying footage in 2016 almost
175,000 viewers have seen it and more than 300 have commented the vast majority of these messages expressed gratitude that Higgins had bravely
intervened to save the little girl
Indeed while compiling his news item Fox 19's baldwin referred to Higgins as a hero however the Cincinnati man
Did not agree with the term
I don't consider myself a hero Higgins told the reporter the heroes are our veterans who go and fight for this country
Those are the heroes those are the ones that should get the daily. Thank-yous and they don't