A baby has miraculously survived a horrific road accident that saw her ripped from her mother's womb and thrown on the grass The heavily pregnant woman was a passenger in a truck carrying planks of wood The driver lost control and capsized on a motorway near Cajati, between Sao Paulo and Curitiba in southeast Brazil, the MailOnline reported As a result of the impact the mother was thrown from the truck's cabin before being crushed by the wood that the truck was carrying leaving shocked medics to discover a crying baby girl on a grass verge metres away from her mother The infant was found without a scratch and her umbilical cord appeared to have severed during the crash The girl is now being treated at Pariquera-Acu regional hospital's neonatal intensive care ward Her mother was 39 weeks pregnant at the time and without any documents Police and social services are reportedly trying to identify the child's dead mother They have appealed for relatives of the woman she will be buried as unidentified and the baby girl will be sent to an orphanage and put up for adoption the paramedic who was first on the scene of the accident on the BR-116 highway on Thursday told Brazil's A Tribuna newspaper that the accident was series Mr Barbosa said that the driver was seen to by first-aid and he looked for the deceased He said: "I went looking for the fatal victim who was underneath the wood because there had been no reports of a third victim." He said he found the baby several metres away from the mother and quickly called for an ambulance to take her to hospital He even said it was a miracle that the little girl survived The mother was underneath several planks of wood I don't know how this child got out of their with her life." He said it was emotional and while they couldn't save the mother they did save the child Staff have given the baby the name Giovanna which means 'protected by God' He told rescue crews that he didn't know the woman and was only giving her a lift Text messages showed Erin accusing husband Simon of being a 'bare minimum parent' The driver lost control and capsized on a motorway near Cajati, between Sao Paulo and Curitiba in southeast Brazil This tore the baby from the womb, leaving shocked medics to discover a crying baby girl on a grass verge metres away from her mother, according to reports.  The infant was found without a scratch and her umbilical cord appeared to have severed during the crash. The girl is now being treated at Pariquera-Acu regional hospital's neonatal intensive care ward. Her mother was 39 weeks pregnant at the time and without any documents.  Police and social services are reportedly trying to identify the child's dead mother.  They have appealed for relatives of the woman. If none are found, she will be buried as unidentified and the baby girl will be sent to an orphanage and put up for adoption, according to police .      Elton Fernando Barbosa, the paramedic who was first on the scene of the accident on the BR-116 highway on Thursday, told Brazil's A Tribuna newspaper that the accident was serious. Mr Barbosa said that the driver was seen to by first-aid and he looked for the deceased.     He said: 'I went looking for the fatal victim who was underneath the wood, when I heard the cries of a baby. It was which total apprehension, because there had been no reports of a third victim.' He said he found the baby several metres away from the mother, and quickly called for an ambulance to take her to hospital.  He even said it was a miracle that the little girl survived.   Mr Barabosa said: 'I'll be honest. It was God. By what I saw, I have no idea how she came out alive. The mother was underneath several planks of wood. I don't know how this child got out of their with her life.' He said it was emotional and while they couldn't save the mother they did save the child.   Staff have given the baby the name Giovanna which means 'protected by God', according to Solange Batista, a nurse at the Pariquera-Acu hospital. The driver, Jonathan Ferreira, has been charged with manslaughter. He told rescue crews that he didn't know the woman and was only giving her a lift. Major terror attack 'was just HOURS away' before it was foiled by the special forces and police:... Victim of acid attack 'plotted by his ex-partner who teamed up with a gang' dies in hospital six... 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