A YOUNG mum and her baby daughter looked on in horror from the kitchen window as a runaway lorry smashed through the back garden fence and headed straight for them.
But Tracy Pendlebury, 27, and her two-year-daughter Leah, had a miraculous escape when the lorry came to a stop on the patio just inches from the kitchen wall.
The drama happened just before 3pm on Tuesday in Westerdale Close at the bottom of a steep gradient on the Parkland Heights development off Manchester Road, Tyldesley.
Tracy's father-in-law, Frank Pendlebury of Manchester Road, Tyldesley, said: "They were very lucky. If it had been a nice summer's day it would have been a different story. In fact, it doesn't bear thinking about.
"The patio and all the garden furniture were flattened under the wheels of the lorry."
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