A WOMAN pushing a pram amazingly managed to save two dogs that had run onto a busy Flintshire road.

The incident occurred on the A548 (coast road) near McDonald's in Flint on Monday afternoon.

It saw two dogs, a Jack Russell named Scampi and a Bedlington Cross Whippet puppy called Whip, escape out of the unlocked gate of a nearby house and onto the busy main road.

The dogs' owner Rhian Hughes says neither Scampi nor Whip has any sense of road danger, and it was only down to the heroic actions of a woman who, despite pushing her baby in a pram was able to frantically wave for traffic to stop, that the dogs weren't killed.

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Miss Hughes explained: "My niece went to work and hadn't shut gate properly and I remembered saying to kids have you seen the dogs, I went in the garden. the gate was shut but there were no dogs.

"I ran on the streets in bare feet shouting them, got to the top of road and there they were with this lady and her pram - my daughter ran to the lady but dogs ran to me and I just brought them straight home.

"My daughter said the lady had told her she had to stop traffic and they were in the road, and that she even had to briefly leave her baby on the path at one point while she got them to safety.

"It's a quick road and without prior warning it'd be practically impossible for people to have been able to stop in time to have avoided them."

And now, Miss Hughes wants to find the gallant member of the public to thank her personally.

She said: "My daughter thanked her, but I really want to thank her myself - I couldn't tell u how much Scampi and Whip mean to me, they're like my children.

"I was in such a state and was getting the dogs home so never got a chance to thank her properly like she deserves - she has saved my dogs and she needs to be recognised for her caring and loving nature."