A BABY boy had a miracle escape when his father’s car careered out of control on a motorway, skidding on its roof and scraping just inches by a lorry.

    The 4-month-old was strapped into a baby seat when the family car flipped as it traveled on the outside lane of the M5 in the West Midlands, Britain.

    After colliding with a passing vehicle, the Volvo saloon was turned upside down and sent flying across two lanes.

    In doing so, it skewed right across the path of an 18-wheeler, clipping its bumper as it sent sparks flying from the tarmac.

    However, the two vehicles somehow managed to escape what would have been a horror collision.

    The white car then continued to skid across the road surface, swerving on to the hard shoulder before ploughing into roadside shrubbery.

    The terrifying crash was caught on the dashboard camera of the lorry the car so nearly hit.

    Its shocked driver pulled over to check on those on board.

    Astoundingly, all had survived — including a baby boy found hanging upside down from his car seat in the front of the vehicle. The dashcam drama was released by haulage firm Owens Group, based in Llanelli, South Wales, yesterday.

    Mike Colborne, 48, health and safety manager at Owens Group, said the white car’s driver had his wife and 4-month-old baby in the car. He said, “Our driver helped as best he could and phoned the police. Everybody was able to get out.

    “We now have the forward-facing cameras in all our vehicles. We were trialing it at the time and that was enough for us.” (SD-Agencies)