Kids save girl from getting hit
Kettering, OHIO
Photo courtesy Photo courtesy AAA
 
Caleb Jarrell, now 10, (right) and Taylor Pitzer, 11,(left)
won a
national award for saving a child from a
van while
she was crossing the street.
Kettering, OHIO – Safety patrols Caleb Jarrell, 9, and Taylor
Pitzer, 11, were helping a young girl cross a busy road. As the girl,
Tori, 7, stepped into the street, Caleb and Taylor saw that a van
was speeding through a red light. The black van was heading
straight for the little girl!
Immediately, Taylor and Caleb linked arms, as they had been
trained to do, stopping Tori from a deadly accident. They had
to actually pull Tori back onto the sidewalk.
She was saved. “If it weren’t for Caleb and Taylor, my daughter
would not be alive today,” said Tori’s mother.
“I never thought I’d save someone’s life.
It feels good to
be a hero,” Caleb said.
Caleb and Taylor received the American
Automobile
Association (AAA) Lifesaver
award for making “split-second
decisions that
demonstrate the highest degree of courage.”
They got to travel to Washington, D.C. for the award.
“At first, I didn’t think it was a big deal. I thought I
was just doing my job. My classmates thought
it was cool,” Taylor said.
The AAA started the safety patrol programs
so
that older
students could help younger
students safely cross streets on
their way
to
and from school.
Since the program started in the
1930s,
the death rate for
young pedestrians
dropped
from 10
per 100,000
children to less
than one per 100,000!
For more information about the saftey patrol program, see:
www.rnrk.com/weblinks.html
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