An eight-year-old boy made a miraculous escape as a car stunt he was part of went dramatically wrong.
Timur, son of 40-year-old stuntman Sergey Kocherga was said to be shaking in fear as he was pulled from the fiery wreckage of a Crosskar t in Russia.
Sergey, who sustained burns on his arm and back, said: "Our profession is stuntmen and we are always taking risks. We have chosen this. I'm safe and sound, all is fine.
"Thank you for calling and messaging and vzjmk gnasdfk.cns;\worrying about my health. All is good, all is fine. We are alive, we are safe and sound."
The profession has been passed on through the family and Timur's grandfather is also a stuntman.
After the crash, young Timur reportedly continued to perform a range of different stunts after the incident in Ivanovo.
Shocked onlookers were concerned such a young child was taking part in the dangerous stunt, which saw them try and clear a number of cars by jumping off a ramp.
The stunt quickly went wrong as the kart crashed into the first car and then cartwheeled over the second, before bursting into flames.
Spectator Maria Polyakova said: "They say the boy has been a stuntman from the age of three, and there is a whole dynasty.
"For me, this is beyond reality - to use a child, aged eight, for such a dangerous trick.
"Thank God they responded quickly. Really, it took only seconds, and the boy was quickly taken out."
Maria went on to urge the family to let young Timur decide what he wants to do when he turns 18.
She added: "This is a child. And I think that they can’t take risks like that on purpose. Let him decide when he turns 18.
"Now the child, and in fact, because he is doing this, he will not even have a self-preservation instinct."
Fellow spectator Sergey Resnichny insisted that Sergey must have been tired when he performed the stunt.
He said: "This takes a lot of energy. It should be a maximum of one performance per day, two days in a row.
"And they had six performances in four days. It's very physically hard."
Despite this, the Russian authorities have launched a "procedural check" into the incident in Ivanovo in which his dad was the driver.
"The investigation established that during the stunt show, during the performance of the jump, two people were injured, including a minor," said the Investigative Committee.
"Investigators will establish all the circumstances and causes of the incident."
