A 'miracle' baby stunned her mother when she survived being thrown 25ft from her car in a motorway crash.

Eight-month-old Bryce was found in a drain "sitting up" and waiting to be pulled out, with just a scratch on her forehead.

Jakesia Colson, Bryce's mother, told of her panic when she realised her daughter had been ejected from the car in Texarkana, Arkansas, after a lorry clipped them.

She said: "I got out of the vehicle, looked in the back seat, and saw my baby wasn't back there.

"So I started running up and down the highway, looking everywhere for her, calling her name.

"I didn't hear no baby crying, no baby screaming, nothing. I panicked. I thought she was gone. It was the worst 15 minutes of my life."

Bryce was eventually found, having slipped through a grate covered in hay and landed in a drain.

Firefighter Josh Moore said: "We immediately began searching in the hay.

"A Good Samaritan was already out here searching in the hay and he claimed he heard something in this general direction.

"The baby at the time... was actually sitting down in the grate, sitting up and looking up at us waiting for us to pull her out.

"She wasn't screaming, she wasn't crying, was just sitting there waiting for us."

Ms Colson, who had been in the car with a friend and her daughter, added: "I knew I was blessed. Nothing was wrong with her. She's still the same - she's still the happy baby.

"I know it was a miracle. I was overwhelmed with joy. She's my miracle baby."