One of the most frequent causes of fatalities on our roads is car accidents. Sometimes accidents will cause immense anguish, occasionally emotional and bodily problems, and sometimes it seems angels have guarded the passengers in the car. As this accident had a beautiful conclusion because of a 5-year-old, and we don’t even want to consider what may have occurred if Lexi hadn’t been there.
5-year-old Lexi Shymanski recently distinguished herself as a young hero and astounded everyone by miraculously saving the lives of her mother and her brother, who is four months old. Her mother, Angela Shymanski, was returning her children from vacation to Prince George, British Columbia when she began to feel weary.
“It is a day I’ll never forget, and I’m still astounded at what happened,”Angela said. She told herself she would pull over once she reached Jasper, Alta., to get some rest but she never made it. She soon fell asleep herself after she put on lullaby music so her kids could go to sleep.
However, the family’s SUV left the road at a high rate of speed, swerved through gravel and trees, and then fell down a 40-foot embankment outside the mountain town of Jasper in western Alberta, Canada. Angela claimed she was knocked unconscious and hurt internally in addition to breaking her back.
As soon as her newborn brother started crying, her daughter Lexi woke up and somehow knew she needed to get help. The young child was able to unlock the damaged car’s passenger door, unclip the five-point harness from her car seat, which was pressed up against the seat in front of her, and climb up the steep embankment without shoes. As soon as she reached the top, Lexi was able to wave down a car and explain what had happened.
“It’s crazy. 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,”Angel said.
Angela Shymanski, Travis Shymanski, Lexi Shymanski, and Peter Shymanski
The first onlooker to stop descended and removed baby Peter from the car. As he was unable to save Angela by himself, he returned to the road to signal another motorist. That choice also proved to be a miracle, according to Angela, as the paramedic stopped after she was aware not to attempt to move her. She said that due to her fractured back, a bone fragment became trapped in her spinal column just half a centimeter from her spinal cord.
“He stayed with me until I regained consciousness and I could see Lexi lying down next to the highway and that someone else had the baby. It took him five tries before he could get cell service to call 911,”Angela said recalling the incident.
Following the collision, the family was transported by EMS to a Jasper medical facility before being flown by helicopter to an Edmonton hospital. Doctors eventually discovered that Peter had also experienced a critical brain bleed, but at first, it looked that Angela’s wounds were the most severe. The child underwent emergency surgery and appears to be doing well, according to Angela.
Lexi initially only seemed to have a minor scratch on the left side of her face. She now claims to have neck pain, which Angela believes to be the result of soft tissue damage, as well as nightmares, and she had to be revived twice after the collision on the way to the hospital.
Six weeks later, Angela is still in a lot of discomforts and spends much of her time sleeping in the family’s living room in a hospital bed. Although she also has nerve damage in her left leg, she insisted that her daughter’s heroic efforts prevented the crash from being much worse.
“Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes, and Lexi was our superhero that day,” Angela said.
“It was only because [Lexi] came up and flagged people down that anybody would have stopped,” Angela said. “It’s crazy because 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.”
Little Lexi, on the other hand, seemed to be “blissfully unaware” of her life-saving efforts, although thanks to Lexi Shymanski and a good Samaritan, who was in the right place at the right time. Her mother said, “She just doesn’t know what it means. She’s just 5 years old and so happy to be home and playing with her dog and her ducks.”
