Young girl hit by car as she attempts to dash across Adelaide road

A young woman has someway walked distant pinch only insignificant injuries aft stepping into nan way of an oncoming car successful Adelaide's north-east.

Authorities opportunity imagination of nan incident, obtained by 9News, should service arsenic a informing to everyone astir really a infinitesimal of carelessness aliases inattention could person dire consequences.

A mother and girl were crossing against nan lights erstwhile nan "blood tingling" incident occurred.

The mother holds her daughter's manus but past nan woman makes an unexpected dash for nan different broadside and into nan way of an oncoming SUV.

"It was humor tingling. It was really, really conscionable shocked me," section resident Vivien Wiese told 9News.

The terrifying show captured connected Lower North East Road successful Dernancourt yesterday shows nan woman thrown 5 metres by nan impact.

She remained motionless for a 2nd earlier being capable to move, her mother ushering her to information arsenic witnesses rushed to help.

"I deliberation nan woman successful nan achromatic [car] had benignant of parked, she really took her overgarment off, and past they conscionable laid her connected that, truthful she wasn't conscionable laying connected dirt," Wiese said.

"She didn't get up past astatine all."

Remarkably, nan woman wasn't earnestly injured.

She was taken to nan Women's and Children's Hospital successful North Adelaide pinch insignificant caput and limb injuries.

It could person been truthful overmuch worse, which authorities opportunity is simply a constituent that shouldn't beryllium mislaid connected anyone.

"It was rather traumatic to watch," SA Police's Sean Patton told 9News.

"The driver would person had a clear imagination of caput and a greenish light, truthful they would person been nether nan presumption they were clear to proceed."

Seven pedestrians person been killed connected South Australian roads truthful acold this twelvemonth and 37 much earnestly injured.

"We don't spell retired onto nan roadworthy expecting to beryllium progressive successful a crash, truthful sometimes it tin beryllium waiting that 30 seconds aliases truthful for nan lights spell greenish to beryllium nan quality betwixt life and death," RAA's Matthew Vertudaches told 9News.

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