{"id":7537,"date":"2015-05-07T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/07\/an-angel-among-us\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:26:41","slug":"an-angel-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/07\/an-angel-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Angel Among Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman has been praised after trying to save a two-year-old girl who died after a car driven by her mother smashed into a tree.<\/div>\n

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Henna Rai, a General Election candidate, put her coat on the ground and helped perform CPR on the child following the accident in the Birmingham district of Selly Oak. <\/div>\n

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The girl\u2019s mother was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and child neglect following the crash, which happened at around 4pm.<\/div>\n

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Ms Rai is a trained first aider who stood as an Independent candidate at the recent General Election. <\/div>\n

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\u201cI just wanted to save that baby girl. I was driving down Gibbins Road and the crash that had already taken place. When I saw the panicked faces I pulled over immediately to help. I saw a lady with a cut to her head.<\/div>\n

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\u201cShe was quite confused, saying: \u2018We need to get the baby out of the car\u2019. Another person in the car, I believe it was the grandmother, had put the little girl across her lap and was trying to resuscitate her, giving her compressions.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe pushed the seat forward because it was a two-door car. I put my coat down on the floor and we laid the baby on top of it and gave her CPR and continued until the paramedics took over.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey lifted her out of my arms almost immediately. Part of me knew what had happened to her but I was still hopeful she may come back.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThe emergency services arrived really quickly and I was just hoping Esmee would make it. The first ambulance that arrived was so swift in its response. They swept her out from underneath me, I said: \u2018Save her, just save her\u2019. The mother was utterly devastated, she was just broken, she was screaming.<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy thoughts are with Esmee\u2019s family.\u201d<\/div>\n

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She said: \u201cEsmee was just a year younger than my daughter and I wanted to put a teddy bear at the spot. I went back and sat there and reflected and just cried.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t even fathom what the family must be enduring. That girl went and took a piece of me with her, I didn\u2019t know her but this has bound me to her and to her family.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe least I can do is try to offer some comfort.\u201d<\/div>\n

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She said: \u201cNobody cared about cast, creed, background, anything. It was about saving a little girl\u2019s life, that\u2019s all it was. What I saw shows people do come together. I have no words to express it, they are true heroes and they need to be acknowledged.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Ms Rai regularly drives along Gibbins Road with her three-year-old daughter.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI had driven up that road with my own daughter about five or ten minutes earlier. I dropped her home and when I drove past this I stopped and it just consumed me. I believe the girl\u2019s family lived quite close by and they were just on their way home.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Woman Praised for Trying to Help Dying Girl A woman has been praised after trying to save a two-year-old girl who died after a car driven by her mother smashed into a tree. \u00a0 Henna Rai, a General Election candidate, put her coat on the ground and helped perform CPR on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}