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An Australian suffered serious bruising while she was protecting her baby against hail stones the size of a softball on Thursday.
(US Geological Survey)
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An Australian woman was severely injured after using her body to protect her 4 – month – old baby from a violent hail storm with a hail the size of a softball that shattered by the window of his car Thursday, reported the article.
Fiona Simpson, 23, was driving with her 78-year-old grandmother and baby to Kingaroy, northwest of Brisbane, when a storm of tornado and hail hit, breaking her window, reported ABC.net.au in Australia. She then covered her baby with her body as the hail stones came to them.
"We parked at the side of the road when the storm became too heavy and hail blew our windows," she wrote in a Facebook post. "I've covered my baby with my body to prevent it from hurting itself badly. Please, be careful in this stormy season.
Simpson said she was in shock and that her whole body was feeling numb when paramedics arrived, reported the Australian news site.
"It was only when I got in the ambulance that I realized that if I had not done so, her baby could have been seriously injured or killed, all could have been done. to arrive, "she said.
Most of the skin of his left arm was shredded, while the other arm was "completely black" because of bruises, the report said.
"I'm only a mom – you do everything you can to protect your child, no matter the circumstances, even at your own expense and I'll do it again," she told ABC.
She posted photos of her injuries on Facebook, claiming: "I learned my lesson today, NEVER drive in a hail storm!"
