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Trucker's lucky escape
A truck driver narrowly missed a mother and baby as his lorry ploughed into a building.
The 58-year-old from Boldon was injured and left trapped inside his cab after the incident in Cumbria.
He was cut free by rescue crews and taken to Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, where his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
Ruth Alcroft, 33, and her 15-month-old child Taryn were asleep in their home in Linstock, Carlisle, when the large vehicle smashed into a joiner's workshop next door, reducing it to rubble
The white Scania lorry was travelling towards Carlisle from M6 junction 44 when it drifted across the roundabout into the workshop.
But the house next door and the family's two vehicles parked outside escaped damage in the smash, which happened at 3.26am.
Steve Kirkbride, the fire crew manager, said: "The driver was stuck inside the cab of the vehicle because of a lot of debris and we had to get him out using small tools.
"He wasn't seriously injured, which is quite surprising really – he was very lucky."
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