Terrifying dashcam shows four-year-old in just a diaper and tank top and clutching an iPad wandering into busy intersection - what happens next will warm your heart

Terrifying dashcam footage caught nan infinitesimal a 4 twelvemonth aged successful conscionable a diaper and vessel apical ran into a engaged intersection.

The recently-released footage shows cars whizzing down a residential thoroughfare successful Staten Island, New York connected June 19 - pinch a mini fig clutching an iPad moving down them, straight successful nan mediate of nan road.

There were nary parents moving aft nan boy arsenic he made his measurement into nan intersection of Harold Street and Sunset Avenue. 

Fortunately, a quick-thinking Metropolitan Transportation Authority autobus driver came to nan young boy's rescue. 

Peter Warner stopped nan autobus and was seen successful nan dashcam footage stepping retired of his conveyance and scooping up nan kid successful his arms.

'I really blocked nan intersection pinch nan bus,' Warner recounted to ABC 7. 'I sewage out, secured my bus, took nan babe successful my custody.' 

'If nan kid was moving down nan sidewalk, I would fig that nan parents would beryllium chasing him, but he was successful nan mediate of nan thoroughfare - dormant smack successful nan mediate of nan street,' he added. 

Warner was past seen trying to make telephone calls connected his cellphone successful an evident effort to summon emergency assistance, while holding nan kid successful 1 arm.

As he waited for thief to get connected nan scene, Warner carried nan toddler wrong nan autobus and sat him down successful beforehand of nan vehicle.

Meanwhile, a bully Samaritan could beryllium seen extracurricular nan autobus directing postulation astir nan stopped vehicle. 

The video ends pinch nan presence of a marked NYPD car astatine nan scene.

Warner, a begetter of 2 himself, said he tried to usage nan boy's iPad to interaction his parents - but recovered that it was restricted, according to nan Staten Island Advance.

He past attempted to clasp nan child's manus to spot if nan boy would lead them to his house, but to nary avail.

Police, meanwhile, circled nan area to spot if they could find immoderate distressed parents searching for their boy - but they, too, came up empty.

In total, Warner maintained custody of nan boy for 45 minutes earlier NYPD officers took nan boy to a section precinct.

But earlier he left, nan boy wanted different hug from Warner - a tender infinitesimal that was captured by 1 of nan passengers connected nan bus.

It was astir an hr later that constabulary said nan parents picked up nan boy from nan precinct, pinch Warner saying he believes a station connected a organization Facebook page played a awesome domiciled successful notifying nan boy's mother that her boy was connected nan loose.

It turned retired that nan boy was 4 blocks from his home, and had managed to rotation disconnected while his begetter was dormant and his mother was astatine work, ABC 7 reports.

'She gave maine a large hug and thanked maine up and down, and she messages maine each nan time,' Warner said of nan mother's response.

'Every clip I station pictures of my kids now, we're friends connected Facebook, and she comments connected my kids' pitches and worldly for illustration that,' he said. 'So we made a relationship retired of it.' 

Daniel Casella, president of nan Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726, applauded Warner's efforts successful nan aftermath.

'A batch of things spell connected during nan time that doesn't get noticed,' he told nan Staten Island Advance.

'The drivers, they do a batch mundane to thief people, and each erstwhile successful a while, past you get 1 for illustration this, wherever it's really a occurrence thing happened to this kid.

'Thank God he [Warner] came upon him and convey God he stopped and did what he had to do because, you know, I don't cognize that everyone would do that,' Casella added.