So much arguing, so much animosity, so many depressing stories. Here's one I hope will bring a smile to everyone's lip and lighten hearts generally.
A five-year-old B.C. girl is being hailed as a hero for helping save her mother and baby brother’s lives following a car crash in which she hiked barefoot up a steep embankment to flag down a passerby for help.
The girl’s mother, Angela Shymanski, said she and her two children, five-year-old Lexi and now four-month-old Peter, were driving home to Prince George from a vacation to the Calgary area on June 8 when she felt herself getting increasingly tired behind the wheel.
She told herself she would pull over once she reached Jasper, Alta., to get some rest— but she never made it. Their SUV traveled down a 12-metre steep embankment about 15 kilometres outside of Jasper and crashed into a tree.
Angela said she was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken back and internal injuries. Her daughter Lexi woke up to her baby brother’s cries, and somehow knew she needed to get help.
The little girl managed to unclip the five-point harness on her car seat, which was lodged up against the seat ahead of her, open the smashed car’s passenger door, and climb up the embankment’s steep and rugged terrain without any shoes.
Once at the top, Lexi managed to flag down a vehicle and tell the driver what had happened.
“It’s crazy,” Angela told Metro. “I only can remember one or two times where she got out of her five-point harness previously. She somehow got out, adrenaline or whatever, and barefoot hiked up the embankment.”
The first passerby to stop hiked down and took baby Peter out of the vehicle. Unable to pull Angela to safety by himself, he went back up to the road to flag down another driver.
That decision also turned out to be a miracle, said Angela, as the next person to stop was a paramedic who knew to not try to move her.
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1444130/five-year-old-b-c-girl-saves-mother-baby-brother-after-serious-car-crash/#And what a cutie pie, too.
