11-year-old steers car to safety
When Dana Encapera blacked out while driving to the mall in Uniontown, Pa., she was lucky to have her coolheaded daughter Sage, 11, along for the ride. Sage quickly checked her mother’s pulse, then seized the wheel and steered the car off the road before it veered into oncoming traffic. “I didn’t want to crash into anybody else,” explained Sage, “so I hurried up and grabbed it.” Dana, who had suffered a seizure, said of her daughter: “She saved my life, she saved her life, and she saved other people’s lives.”
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17-year-old saved by baggy pants
Kendrick Williams, a 17-year-old from St. Petersburg, Fla., says his baggy trousers kept him from getting chomped on by an alligator last week. As he walked by a large pond on the way home from work, he heard a strange hissing sound. “I looked down and I seen the alligator on the ground,” said Williams. “I ran. I didn’t look back.” The gator snapped at Williams’s upper leg but ended up with only a snout-full of pants. Said his mom, Tanita Murray: “That was the advantage of wearing baggy pants that day.”
