Little Nafisah Ali sits in a cot playing happily with toys just 48 hours after surviving a horrific road accident almost unscathed.

The one-year-old was thrown through the windscreen of the car she was travelling in and catapulted 50ft to be found by passing motorists in the middle of Canal Road in Bradford.

She was due to leave Bradford Royal Infirmary today after treatment for cuts and bruises which only required a few stitches.

Her mother Zarina Bi, 26, who suffered arm and facial injuries in the accident, said it was amazing Nafisah had escaped with only minor injuries.

She said she could remember little of the accident when the BMW she was travelling in was in collision with a Peugeot at the junction of Canal Road and Shipley-Airedale Road at 9.20am on Sunday.

The BMW, which was also carrying three members of her family, somersaulted across the road and hit a lamppost. She said Nafisah appeared to be recovering from the ordeal.

The mum and daughter, from Blackburn, were going to stay with the youngster's grandparents in Bradford.

Nafisah's father Salok Ali, 48, who was driving the car, suffered a broken pelvis and was in a satisfactory condition at BRI.

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