See How a 5-Year-Old Girl Helped Rescue Mum And Baby Brother After Car Crash
A five year-old girl has been described as a hero after climbing up a rocky mountain barefoot and stopping drivers to help rescue her mum and baby brother who were left unconscious after a car crash.
The Metro reports:
The girlâs 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 brotherâs 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 carâs passenger door, and climb up the embankmentâs 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.
âItâs crazy, 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.â Angela said.
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. She said her broken back had caused a bone fragment to become lodged inside her spinal column about a half centimetre from her spinal cord. âIf they would have jostled me a little bit I might have been completely paralyzed, Itâs hard to know.â she said
After the crash, the family was taken by ambulance to a health care centre in Jasper, and later airlifted to hospital in Edmonton. At first Angelaâs injuries appeared to be the most severe but doctors later realized that Peter had also suffered a serious brain bleed. The infant was rushed into surgery and seems to be recovering well said Angela.
At first Lexiâs only injury appeared to be a small scratch on the left side of her face. She now complains of neck pain, however, that appears to be the result of soft tissue injury and also has nightmares, said Angela and she had to be resuscitated twice after the crash while en route to hospital.
Six weeks later, Angela still has significant pain and spends most of her time resting in a hospital bed in the familyâs living room. She also has nerve damage in her left leg, still she said the crash could have been much worse if not for the efforts of her heroic daughter.
She said she was later told the location where her vehicle had traveled off the road was not visible from the highway.
Angela had also told her husband she would be taking a different route home but ended up missing the turnoff. If not for Lexi going to get help, search and rescue crews may not have figured out where they had crashed once her husband reported them missing. âIt was only because she came up and flagged people down that anybody would have stopped, itâs crazy because the guy who came to see us in the hospital said the medics and the firemen needed ropes to get up and down that embankment, and she did it barefoot.â
Angela said she has no idea how her daughter managed to do it, except to say that she has always been very aware of safety precautions. When Lexi was four years old, Angela said she and her husband taught their daughter how to call neighbours for help in an emergency. âIt seems crazy to do that with a four-year-old, but that must have saved her life, Itâs amazing and weâre just so glad she did that.â
Today, Angela said her daughter seems to be blissfully unaware of how much her efforts helped save her mother and brotherâs lives. âShe just doesnât know what it means, sheâs just five years old and so happy to be home and playing with her dog and her ducks.â she said
Lexi is such a brave little angel. I admire her courage.
Awwww brave Girl
Wow thank God for Lexi. She’s a life saver. Baby hero.
Wat a brave girl! Thank God for quick intervention.
Very brave girl. I admire her courage.
Thank god for delivery them
Such a brave girl. Thank God for the rescue.
Hmmmm what a smart kid
What a brave little Girl thank God for their lives
Smart kid
Wow it can only be a miracle.The girl was taken up the mountain by divine help
This story is too sympathetic infact God I tnk u for using Lexi to save her family.
Very brave child. Children of nowadays are very smart
God works in mysterious ways,his ways are not the way of man… He used the little girl to deliver them. Thank God for their life
That’s some bravery.
What a brave girl bless her
This is a miracle. God @ work. God used little Lexi to save her mother and brother. Her Angels definitely were with her. Thank God for their lives. I pray for permanent healing for all of them.
Blessed girl
Wow!Am impressed.Such a brave little girl.God used her to save her family
The girl is a Messiah… a big round of applause for her.
5???? Wow!!! She is a God sent
all I can say is it was just God