An eight-month-old baby was unscathed after the infant’s stroller slid down a 20-foot embankment on a West Vancouver trail Monday morning.
West Vancouver Fire and Rescue and B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics raced to the Seaview Walk, a popular hiking trail that runs above Marine Drive, just before 11 a.m and hiked a half-kilometre in from the Gleneagles Community Centre.
“They were able to find the mother and infant and they tell me, they’re in good shape,” said assistant fire chief Martin Ernst.
“The infant went down in the stroller and stayed in the stroller, which is actually probably a good thing because the child was strapped in a stroller is a nice, soft environment.”
The incident appears to have been an accident, Ernst said.
Paramedics took the baby and mother to Lions Gate Hospital to be checked over, simply as a precaution.
The section of the trail where the stroller slid down is at about a 15-per cent grade, Ernst said.
