September 15, 2003
Quick Thinking 12 Year Old Saves Lives
The quick action of a 12 year-old girl may have saved the lives of about a dozen motorists when her father suffered a heart attack and died behind the wheel of his truck.
Gary Carey was driving his daughters north from the traffic light between Super Value and East Street South Super Market, at the East Street and Robinson Road intersection when the unexpected occurred.
Keva, 12, said she was looking out the window when she noticed the truck moving into traffic and her father "snoring".
"We were waiting on the light to turn green," she said, "Then I feel us moving and the truck just started rolling. I look and saw Daddy was leaning sideways."
When the truck moved forward into oncoming traffic, she quickly reached over her 8-year-old sister, Khadijah, and steered the truck into the parking lot of East Street South Super Market. Keva then called her mother and family members.
Mr. Carey was taken to hospital where attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
Posted by admin at September 15, 2003 10:55 AM