According to Fox News.com, a 9-year-old girl is credited with saving her mother's life by stopping
their car after her mother passed out behind the wheel during a diabetic
emergency.
MyFoxChicago.com reports that Aleksandra Sheridan was riding
in the passenger seat of her mother's car in Frankfort, Il., when her mother's blood sugar
dropped dangerously low and she lost control of the vehicle.
Aleksandra turned off the key to stop the car, preventing the vehicle from
crashing into a tree. Her mother, Jennifer, reportedly drove at excessive
speeds before the car came to a stop.
"At one point she went through a stoplight and then at the next point
she was going over 70 miles per hour," Aleksandra tells MyFoxChicago.com.
"She slowed down once I told her to and we ended up going off the
road."
Aleksandra then gave chocolate bars to her mother and waited for police to
arrive. No one was injured during the incident.
"Thank God that we didn't get hurt and we didn't get into an accident
or hurt anyone else," the third-grader tells MyFoxChicago.com.
Aleksandra's mother says she will now administer her
diabetes medicine using an insulin pump, the report states.
Aleksandra Sheridan, 9, saved her mother's life when she had a medical emergency on the roadway. (MyFoxChicago.com) Courtesy of Fox News.com
