A tenuous situation turned tragic when a mother momentarily left her daughter in a running vehicle near Brisbane and a car thief was quick to capitalize. Moving without hesitation, Nicole Frost did everything in her power to stop the car, eventually driving the thief to abandon the vehicle. The man remains at large, but Frost and her daughter are safe.

A Woodridge mother threw herself into the path of a moving car after a thief attempted to steal the vehicle with her 15-month-old baby girl inside.

Nicole Frost had driven into her Kingston Road driveway in Brisbane’s south just before 5pm on Friday to check the letterbox leaving her car door open, the engine running and her daughter, Amelia, inside.

“I quickly just ran to the letter box to check it,” Ms Frost told Seven News.

A screenshot from security camera footage showing one of two suspected car thieves south of Brisbane.

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