Runaway car knocks baby from pram

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A baby was thrown out of her pram after it was struck by a runaway car which rolled down a hill in West Lothian before smashing into a butcher's shop.

Twelve-week-old Lily-Anne is recovering with her mother, Emma Broadley, after the Alfa Romeo rolled down South Street in Armadale.

It struck another pedestrian before crashing into J&K Dewar Butchers.

The incident, which happened at 1145 GMT on Saturday, will be reported to the procurator fiscal in Linlithgow.

Derek Sneddon, 33, a butcher at J&K Dewar Butchers, said he was making sausage rolls with a colleague when they heard a loud crash.

I saw a woman on the ground who had been hit by the car Derek Sneddon

He told the BBC Scotland news website: "We heard this big crash and ran through to the front of the shop and saw the front of the car in our shop.

"The door of the shop was hanging off and the shutters were all twisted.

"I saw a woman on the ground who had been hit by the car. She was all cuts and bruises and another woman was in the street screaming: 'My wean, my wean'.

"The woman whose car it was came down the street 10 minutes later as she had been in the post office and thought her car had been stolen. She was so upset when she realised what had happened."

He said the baby's mother, who was also hit by the car, had been "crying and screaming - she must have had the biggest fright of her life".

Mrs Broadley, her baby and Fiona Easton, 43, of Armadale, were all injured in the incident.

The name of the driver of the parked car has not been released.