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Beth Lindop & Liam Buckler

Mum who lost leg crossing road by Aldi threw baby to safety as cars crushed her

A young nurse who threw her five-month-old child to safety when she was about to be hit by a car has “blocked out“ the horror crash.

Ruby Flanagan, 25, from Wallasey, was carrying her newborn baby over a zebra crossing near Aldi when she was crushed between a silver Mercedes and a blue Volkswagen on Monday, August 16, 2021.

Ruby, a nurse at Wirral’s Arrowe Park Hospital, was airlifted to Aintree Hospital after the crash and had to have her right leg amputated and the other put into a stabilising cage, Liverpool Echo reported.

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