The family of a Bradford toddler last night told of her miraculous survival from a 70mph horror crash which killed her dad.

Alisha Kabiri was thrown from the window of her father Akmal Ullah Kabiri’s car, which had swerved violently across the dual carriageway and flipped on to its roof – killing the 49-year-old.

Alisha, then 18 months old, who had suffered only minor injuries, was sitting in the middle of the carriageway when she was then nearly run over by a lorry, whose driver managed to stop only feet away from her.

Hugging her young daughter last night, mum Rahina Khanom Layla, of Peel Square, Manning-ham, spoke of her joy that Alisha, now two, had escaped with her life from the crash.

She said: “The lorry driver must have stopped right in front of Alisha in the road. I am so relieved he did.

“She fell out of the car and was bleeding from her face and had a pain in her tummy but was not hurt.

“I am finding it difficult to come to terms with the death of my husband, but I am so happy to have my child by my side.”

Father-of-three Mr Kabiri died in the crash after losing control of the BMW 308, on the A14 near Ipswich, Suffolk, on May 14.

Alisha was thrown through the window, having not been strapped in.

Her dad, who was also not wearing a seat belt, was thrown ten metres from the car.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lorry driver Graham Kew told the Ipswich inquest into Mr Kabiri’s death that he initially thought Alisha was a piece of rubbish in the road as he approached the scene of the smash.

In a statement read at the inquest, he said: “The dust began to settle and I saw the car on its roof.

“I then saw a pink item in the road and was going to pass over it, thinking it was rubbish.

“I suddenly realised it was a child sitting in the road, with her legs out in front of her.

“The head of her jacket was up and I stopped just feet in front of her.

“I got out really quickly, falling down the steps. I picked the girl up. She was crying and I could feel her breathing. I could see blood coming out of her nose and she remained very still.”

The 52-year-old said after the hearing: “I feared for her life because she’d been thrown from the car at speed.

“I was just amazed she was sitting there alive. It’s a miracle – that’s what I said to police.”

The inquest heard Mr Kabiri had endured a long flight back from his native Bangladesh on the day before the accident.

He had slept and then gone to work at his takeaway restaurant until 11pm before returning home because his wife was ill. He took her to hospital and was returning to his home in Felixstowe with his daughter at about 4.30am when tragedy struck.

Ahmad Ullah, brother-in-law of Mr Kabiri, took in the family the month after his death.

He said: “It’s a miracle the child is alive.”

Paying tribute to her husband, Mrs Khanom said: “He was a good man, a clever man who took care of his children.”

Peter Dean, Coroner for Greater Suffolk and South-East Essex, recorded a verdict of accidental death.

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