Little Boy Hero
Seven-Year-Old Boy Walks in Snow
to Save Mothers Life
The Associated Press
G R E E L E Y, Colo., Nov. 30 Authorities say the quick decisions made by a 7-year-old boy saved the life of his mother when the family got into an accident driving home from Thanksgiving dinner.
Titus Adams and his sisters, Tiffany, 4, and Tierra, 1, were riding in their mom's pickup, snug and warm in their pajamas.
Less than a mile from home, his mother's car veered off the road and rolled five times. She was thrown from the car and was unconscious.
When the truck came to a rest, Titus checked on his sisters, who escaped serious injury because they were buckled into car seats.
"I tried to open the door, but it was kind of squished closed, so I jumped out the window," Titus said.
Before leaving to get help, he comforted Tiffany. "I told her not to let Tierra cry," he said. "I promised her I'd be back after I got some help." "He was in his pajamas with no shoes," said his father, Glenn Adams. "He walked through a muddy field, squeezed under an electric fence and then had to break the gate on another fence to get through."
Titus said, "It had barbed wire on the other side so I couldn't go under it. I was just pushing it really hard and then it fell down."
In all, Titus walked about a half mile, with no coat, in 23-degree weather. "I just ran a lot."
When he arrived at the Galeton Dairy, the boy found an empty office and walked around the building until he found workers and yelled that there had been an accident.
"He kept walking and finally he saw three guys and he just hollered out, `Hey, there's been an accident!"' Adams said. The dairy workers called 911.
State Patrol officers quickly arrived. Titus' mother, Tammy Hill, suffered a broken back, broken neck and 10 broken ribs, was in critical condition at North Colorado Medical Center.
Paramedics said she may not have lived had Titus waited for a passer-by.
"All of the police and paramedics said he's a hero," said his father, Glenn Adams, 32. "He saved his mom's life."
Seven-Year-Old Boy Walks in Snow
to Save Mothers Life
The Associated Press
G R E E L E Y, Colo., Nov. 30 Authorities say the quick decisions made by a 7-year-old boy saved the life of his mother when the family got into an accident driving home from Thanksgiving dinner.
Titus Adams and his sisters, Tiffany, 4, and Tierra, 1, were riding in their mom's pickup, snug and warm in their pajamas.
Less than a mile from home, his mother's car veered off the road and rolled five times. She was thrown from the car and was unconscious.
When the truck came to a rest, Titus checked on his sisters, who escaped serious injury because they were buckled into car seats.
"I tried to open the door, but it was kind of squished closed, so I jumped out the window," Titus said.
Before leaving to get help, he comforted Tiffany. "I told her not to let Tierra cry," he said. "I promised her I'd be back after I got some help." "He was in his pajamas with no shoes," said his father, Glenn Adams. "He walked through a muddy field, squeezed under an electric fence and then had to break the gate on another fence to get through."
Titus said, "It had barbed wire on the other side so I couldn't go under it. I was just pushing it really hard and then it fell down."
In all, Titus walked about a half mile, with no coat, in 23-degree weather. "I just ran a lot."
When he arrived at the Galeton Dairy, the boy found an empty office and walked around the building until he found workers and yelled that there had been an accident.
"He kept walking and finally he saw three guys and he just hollered out, `Hey, there's been an accident!"' Adams said. The dairy workers called 911.
State Patrol officers quickly arrived. Titus' mother, Tammy Hill, suffered a broken back, broken neck and 10 broken ribs, was in critical condition at North Colorado Medical Center.
Paramedics said she may not have lived had Titus waited for a passer-by.
"All of the police and paramedics said he's a hero," said his father, Glenn Adams, 32. "He saved his mom's life."
