AN eight-year-old girl miraculously survived after a 60ft tree branch came crashing down on the car she was in and almost DECAPITATED her.

Little Faith Molineux will go under the knife for facial reconstructive surgery on Thursday after the freak accident left her with a shattered left eye socket and cheek.

Officers who arrived at the scene said that had the little girl been an adult the vast branch would have almost certainly severed her head.

Alisha Vivien, 18, was driving her niece Faith to walk her dogs when the giant branch snapped and crushed the little Peugot 107 at 2pm last Monday.

The vehicle was completely flattened and officers said if Faith had been an adult she would “almost certainly have been decapitated” on Rugeley Road, Cannock, Staffs.

Miraculously, Alisha and her boyfriend, Nathaniel Hailey, 18, only suffered minor bruising while Faith was stuck inside the debris, dropping in and out of consciousness.

An air ambulance flew her to Birmingham Children’s Hospital where medics said she had also suffered multiple fractures to her jaw and a broken left arm.

She has been heavily sedated with morphine and on Thursday part of her face will be peeled back to allow doctors to reconstruct her jaw, left cheek and left eye socket.

Her dad, Daniel, 40, and 30-year-old mum Natalie of Rugeley, Staffs., want to know why such a large overhanging tree hadn’t been cut back.

Speaking from Birmingham Children’s Hospital today, technical support worker Daniel said: “Faith was actually saved by how long the branch was.

“Her saving grace is that it was so big it actually took down trees on the other side of the road, which stopped it completely crushing Faith.

“She was in the back left of the car, and a branch of the branch smashed right in through that window inches above her head.

“Officers at the scene told me if she was an adult, or just a little bit taller, she would have been decapitated.