Credit: MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
A Good Samaritan said he thanked the Good Lord that he was close at hand when a mother, driving with her kids, suffered a seizure and hurtled off the road into a canal.
What started as a calm Sunday drive turned into anything but when a glance into his review mirror left Casey Curtis shocked: a car that had been following him quickly accelerated, veered to the right, and flew off the road into the bushes.
Halting near the scene of the accident, Curtis jumped out of his car and followed the tire marks whilst calling 911.
Beyond several meters of roadside brush, he came across a Jeep flipped upside down half-submerged in water.
“I got to the car, opened up the door, and there were three kids sitting there, staring at me, helpless,” Curtis told local news at the time.
Aged 8, 2, and 4 months, they had been crying for help, and for their mother, whose head was submerged below the water.
He quickly got the kids out and onto the bank before immersing himself up to his chest in the canal water to and save the driver.
SIMILAR DISASTERS, SIMILAR HEROES: Florida Paramotor Pilot Helps Save Woman Clinging to Submerged Car That Crashed into Canal –WATCH
“I lifted the mom’s head up out of the water, and she wasn’t breathing,” Curtis said. “I gave her a breath, and… she started breathing again.”
First responders arrived at the site of the accident on Allapattah Road in Martin County, and rushed the family of four to the hospital. An extended family member said that the 3 children were mercifully unharmed, but that their mother, Shyenique Wilkins, remained hospitalized on a ventilator.
MORE FLORIDA MEN: Trio of Neighbors Honored for Saving the Lives of Florida Plane Crash Survivors
Wilkins’ niece set up a GoFundMe to help with the family’s medical bills. It has raised $4,100 towards a $10,000 goal.
Curtis said he thanked God he was in the right place at the right time, as there was no one else on the road that day, and anyone who’d have come after could not have seen the car beyond the tree line.
WATCH The story below from ABC’s local affiliate…
SHARE This Man’s Timely Heroism With Your Friends On Social Media…
