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A two-year-old Australian boy has escaped injury after crashing his mother's car through a fence and into two other vehicles. Ethan Nicol, of Rockhampton in Queensland, escaped without a scratch despite the car being written-off. His mother Althea said she was standing in her kitchen with a friend when she saw the car go past with Ethan, the youngest of seven children, standing behind the wheel. "I just started screaming because I knew that even if I ran outside and caught up to it I'd never be able to stop it," Mrs Nicol said. Mrs Nicol said when she reached...

Pomona police rescue child trapped in washing machine Sunday May 25, 2003 POMONA, Calif. (AP) A 2-year-old girl was rescued from a locked, running washer at a coin laundry Saturday night and her mother was arrested after a surveillance tape allegedly showed her putting the child into the machine, police said. An officer smashed the window of the machine with his baton to rescue the girl, who was pulled unconscious but breathing at about 5:30 p.m., authorities said. The machine was in its agitation phase and the child was ``submerged in water,'' police Sgt. Matt Stone said. ``She wasn't drowned...