Grandmother fighting for life, 18-month-old girl badly injured after being hit by unoccupied car

A 67-year-old woman is fighting for life and an 18-month-old girl has been badly injured after the pair were hit by an unoccupied car.

The grandmother remains in a critical condition, while the toddler is stable. Picture: Nine

An 18-month-old girl and her 67-year-old grandmother are in hospital after a freak accident saw them hit by an unoccupied car in a suburban Perth street.

The grandmother was holding the baby about 3.30pm on Friday when the car, a Kia Carnival, rolled down a slope in the family’s driveway on Wood Ridge in Edgewater, The West Australian reported.

The pair became trapped underneath as a result.

An 18-month-old girl and 67-year-old grandmother are badly injured after being hit by a car in a freak accident. Picture: Nine

Neighbours in the quiet cul-de-sac rushed to help the toddler, before emergency services were able to extract the woman from under the car.

Paramedics worked on her for about an hour before she was raced to Royal Perth Hospital with multiple broken bones.

She remains in a critical condition, in an induced coma, and will require facial reconstruction surgery.

The toddler is in a stable condition, but requires surgery on her eye socket after suffering a bleed on the brain and a fractured skull.

Police remain baffled by what caused the car to move, and have confirmed there was no one inside the vehicle at the time.

The car, a Kia Carnival, was unoccupied at the time. Picture: Nine

Originally published as Grandmother fighting for life, 18-month-old girl badly injured after being hit by unoccupied car