Shocked passers-by watched in horror as a baby fell more than 30 feet from a tenement window and landed on concrete.
The one-year-old boy from Dundee was taken to Ninewells Hospital after amazingly sustaining only a broken right arm in what one eyewitness described as a “horrific” two-storey drop.
His mother was said to be “a complete wreck” at what had happened to her son.
Nobody was answering the door of the Clepington Road flat.
One ground floor resident told how she took the baby into her home after being alerted to the accident by a crowd that had gathered outside just before 11am on Friday.
“I heard someone screaming and I knew immediately that something was wrong,” she said.
“I looked out the window and there was a man outside who beckoned for me to come out.
“The baby was lying on the concrete crying and at first I really didn’t know what had happened.
“I couldn’t believe it when I realised.”
Once inside the flat the young woman began to check on the baby’s welfare.
“You could tell he had a broken arm but he was crawling about alright otherwise and it did not seem like he had any other serious injuries,” she said.
“It was a miraculous escape.
“Everyone was in shock, but someone had called an ambulance.”
“The mother came down and she was really upset.
“She was just a complete wreck and could not believe what had happened.
“The whole thing was absolutely horrific and just goes to show you can’t take your eyes off a baby for a minute.”
Police and paramedics arrived on the scene and the baby and his mother were taken to Ninewells Hospital.
Another resident said she could not believe the child had not sustained more serious injuries.
“I was in my kitchen when I heard the baby crying, screaming actually, and I looked out the window and saw a couple of men who were just looking with complete shock at the bairn on the floor,” she said.
“The baby was just lying on the ground and it wasn’t until I saw one of the men looking up at the window and pointing at it that I realised what must have happened.
“I ran upstairs and banged on the family’s door and shouted at them that the bairn had fallen out of the window.
“Unsurprisingly the woman was very upset. It is very lucky the baby wasn’t killed.”
A spokesman for Tayside Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the case.