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A BABY girl has died and her mother is in hospital after a car crashed into their house in Thornlie. Witnesses say the driver tried to escape on foot.
It is understood the young mother was walking to her letterbox when she and her baby were struck down.
Sergeant Dianne Simpson said a 24-year-old Perth man, who was earlier seen speeding in Thornlie, in Perth's southeast, clipped a car being driven by an elderly woman about 12.50pm today.
"He has then spun out of control and run into the side of a house,'' Sgt Simpson said.
Major Crash investigators were questioning the man tonight.
Sgt Simpson said the mother was understood to have been outside the house with her 12-month-old daughter.
The Holden Monaro struck them before hitting the brick wall of a neighbouring house.
The baby and her mother were taken to hospital in separate ambulances, and the baby was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
The mother suffered minor injuries including cuts and abrasions.
Sgt Simpson said the driver of the car was arrested at the scene.
It appears that two cars collided at the T-junction intersection of Prion St and Berehaven Ave about 1pm, with one of vehicles careering through the front garden into the carport of a house in Berehaven Ave.
Early reports indicate the mother is her 20s and the baby was less than one year old.
The mother was in hospital in a stable condition.
Neighbour Lee Van Dongen told PerthNow he heard screeching on the road and ran out of his house to see a red car racing up behind a yellow car that was trying to turn right.
"The red car went out of control and careered into the car port .
"He was going fast, bloody fast. I saw the driver of the red car get out and walk over and look at the baby and then has just legged it and ran away,'' Mr Van Dongen said.
A St John Ambulance chaplain counselled distraught paramedics who attended.
The Seven Network said tonight that witnesses to the crash had raced to the house, where they found the badly injured baby girl.
``When they got there they found the baby with terrible injuries, we're told terrible head injuries, and a pile of bricks at the front door of this house,'' Seven Network reporter Grant Taylor said.
``The mother was injured herself and people tell us they just heard her screaming: `Where's my baby, where's my baby?', at that stage unaware of exactly what had happened to her.''
Mr Taylor said local residents had chased the driver, tackled him to the ground and held him until police arrived.
Sgt Simpson said the driver was arrested at the scene.
From Baby dies in horrific house crash in Thornlie | PerthNow
This lady is a friend of my sisters, she has just moved here from over east to make some more money. Her little girl was to turn 1 on May 11th. It was their only child.
I have been told it looks like this guy could face 3 years jail.... WOW.