A six-week-old baby who was thrown onto a motorway from a speeding car miraculously survived without a scratch.

Tiny Jonathan Samuel was flung from his father’s Vauxhall Astra when the car was sent into a spin after a tyre blew at 70mph on the M6 near Wigan.

The family car spun around six times before smashing into the central reserve.

Jonathan, strapped into his baby seat, was sent flying out the door into the fast lane of the motorway.

His baby chair skittered along the carriageway before the tot fell free from the seat at the edge of the road.

The drama happened as 31-year-old salesman Oliver, 23-year-old mum Sadaf and 18-month-old Shalona were travelling home to Croydon after visiting family in Glasgow.

Sadaf told the Sunday Mirror: “I was asleep but woke to feel the car spinning around and the door flapping open and shut. I looked to my side and saw the car seat had gone and started shouting, 'Where is my baby?'"

The frantic father leapt from the car and searched for his tiny son. He told the national newspaper: "I was screaming because I expected to find parts of him and see blood. I was looking for his body."

He came across the mangled baby seat in the fast lane with the six-week-old bouncing baby boy nowhere in sight.

Jonathan’s cries soon lead him to the edge of the carriageway where he scooped up his precious son in the glare of oncoming headlights and hurried back to the car where the baby was grabbed by his panicked mum.

Relieved Sadaf described how she braced herself for the damage she might see but there was not a scratch on her lucky little boy.

An ambulance was called and the baby was taken to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan where medics confirmed he was “fit and well, alert and happy”.

The next afternoon the miracle tot was discharged by astonished doctors who noted how extremely lucky he was to have survived.

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