“The car rolled over and came to a stop on its roof…His mother was dangling by her seat belt. ‘Her head was in a pool of blood. I thought she was dead’…
“Chase unfastened his seat belt, and then crawled under his sister’s seat, unfastened her belt and let her fall onto him instead of the broken glass that had collected beneath her. She then crawled on top of her brother’s outstretched arms out of the car through a window. He told her to stay put…
“He then tried but couldn’t free his mother. So he ran up the embankment and began waving to drivers for help. A couple, whom the family still doesn’t know, stopped. ‘The man had a pocket knife and cut her seat belt off.’”
Nine-year-old Chase Ringwall saved his mother’s life and perhaps his sister’s life with his level-headedness and intelligence after a near-fatal car crash. To learn more, see After crash, boy had no time for tears (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/15/07).
Thanks to reader Matthew Chapman.
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