Boy, 12, Flags Down Police Officer, Helps Save His Mother's Life After She Had a Seizure and Drove Into a Pond
Mar. 15, 2025A 12-year-old boy from Texas is being hailed a hero for saving his mother’s life after she had a seizure and drove her car into a pond with him and his sister inside.
“She’s having a seizure! She’s stuck, she’s in the water!” he yells to Cobb while pointing, “Help her!”
Cobb reassures Dwight he’ll bring him to his mother. He helps Dwight get in his patrol car as the child, who is nearly out of breath, tells Cobb, “Hurry!”
On July 24, Winbush was driving her car with Dwight and Bri-Asia inside when she had a seizure and drove her car into a pond, according to the outlet.
“My nephew was able to swim out of the car to my niece, who then told him to go call for help,” Winbush’s sister Bevnisha Holman told ABC News.
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“I realized that it was happening at that very moment,” he said. “I pulled over and I jumped in the water.”
Although they managed to break a rear window, the car began to sink into the pond. Winbush was rescued shortly after, Munguia said.
“As soon as we were opening the front door, I heard ‘I got her.’ And I felt like I won the lottery,” Munguia said.
Winbush was pulled from the water unconscious and with no pulse, the outlet reports. She wasn’t breathing, so Cobb immediately began performing CPR for several minutes.
Munguia recalled the moment “life started coming back into” Winbush as her pulse returned.
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She spent over three weeks on a ventilator, however, is recovering well and breathing on her own, Holman shared as she thanked first responders for their quick life-saving efforts.
West Orange officials saluted Cobb and the other good Samaritans with a heroic award and a letter of commendation.
source: people.com
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