When Angela Shymanski passed out behind the wheel, the SUV containing her two young children crashed into a tree and plunged down a 40-foot embankment.

 

When five-year-old Lexi woke up, she found he mother unconscious and baby brother, Peter, crying. She herself was suffering from minor injuries.

 

Knowing that they couldn’t be seen from the road, the brave little girl managed to get out of her car seat and climb back up the embankment to the road where she flagged down passers-by.  Luckily, the first driver to stop was a paramedic who knew how to react in a situation like that.

 

Angela was later found to have broken her back, while baby Peter had bleeding on the brain, but thankfully both are set to make a full recovery.

 

Lexi, from Alberta, Canada, is now being hailed a hero after medics said her family could have died or been paralysed for life without her quick-thinking and extreme bravery.

 

Talking about the incident, her mother said: ‘It’s crazy. I can only remember one or two times where she got out of her five-point harness previously. She somehow got out, adrenaline or whatever, and barefoot hiked up the embankment.

 

 

‘The guy who came to see us in the hospital, he said the medics and the firemen needed ropes to get up and down that embankment, and she did it barefoot.

 

‘It was only because she came up and flagged people down that anybody would have stopped.’

 

After 19 days in hospital, Angela is currently unable to hold her children, return to work as a swimming instructor or run the family’s B&B, so a GoFundMe campaign has been established to help pay for rehabilitation and help the family until Angela is well again.

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