4 Year Old Walks 1/4 Mile In One Foot Of Snow To Save Mother And Brother

February 10, 201115 yr

A 4-year-old girl is being praised as a hero after escaping a car accident to get help for her trapped mother and injured little brother. Averie Carrion was in the backseat of her grandfather's pickup truck when her mom, who was driving, lost control on a deserted road in northwest Iowa over the weekend, KTIV 4 News in Sioux City reported on Wednesday. The Chevy Silverado "rolled about two to three times" before coming to a stop on its side, the girl's mother, Jamie, said. She could see her one-year-old son, Abel, was bleeding. "I can't see Averie and at that point I tried to call her name and she didn't answer me," Jamie said. "I thought she was unconscious and I thought she was pinned under the vehicle and I started to panic." What she didn't know was that the young girl, who was not in a car seat but had been strapped in with a seat belt, was already out of the car and going for help. "I wanted to help them," she told KTIV 4 News. She had tried to dig in the snow to help her mom, but then decided to go for help. She walked nearly a quarter of a mile through a foot of snow and braved the 21-degree weather before coming across a farmhouse. "This little girl thinking they were in big trouble was able to climb out of the vehicle and then her instincts must have kicked in," Sioux County Sheriff Dan Altena told the Sioux City Journal. While she was away, Jamie managed to call 911 while trapped in the truck. Paramedics later reunited the mother with her courageous little girl. All three suffered only minor injuries. Averie was also treated for hypothermia. "For a 4-year-old, that's pretty brave," Sioux County sheriff's deputy Justin De Bruin told the Journal.

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