--- description: A brave girl takes action title: This 5-Year-Old Girl Saved Her Mother's Life After a Crash image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This 5-Year-Old Girl Saved Her Mother and Baby Brother's Lives After a Crash by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 1, 2015 6:33 PM CUT by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 1, 2015 6:33 PM CUT Several weeks after a serious car crash, 5-year-old Lexi Shymanski from British Columbia is [being celebrated for saving the lives of her mother and baby brother](http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1444130/five-year-old-b-c-girl-saves-mother-baby-brother-after-serious-car-crash/ "undefined"). Lexi’s mother, Angela Shymanski, lost control of her car on June 8 after falling asleep at the wheel on the way home from a family vacation near Calgary in Canada with Lexi and now 4-month old Peter. The car fell over a steep, 40-ft. embankment, knocking the mother unconscious, according to _Metro News_. The little girl unclipped the five-point harness on her car seat and climbed barefoot up the embankment and flagged down a driver to help. > [](https://twitter.com/PGCitizen/status/626422713108688897) “It’s crazy,” Shymanski told _Metro_. “I only can 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 mother suffered a broken back and the baby a serious brain bleed, but they are in recovery. The daughter is credited with saving their lives. \[[_Metro News_](http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1444130/five-year-old-b-c-girl-saves-mother-baby-brother-after-serious-car-crash/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981215/girl-saves-mother-brother/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981215/girl-saves-mother-brother/"},"headline":"This 5-Year-Old Girl Saved Her Mother and Baby Brother's Lives After a Crash","datePublished":"2015-08-01T18:33:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:54.777Z","description":"A brave girl takes action","url":"https://time.com/3981215/girl-saves-mother-brother/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Appreciation","Car accident"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981215/girl-saves-mother-brother/","name":"This 5-Year-Old Girl Saved Her Mother and Baby Brother's Lives After a Crash"}}]}] ```