MINGO COUNTY, WV : 7-year-old girl helps save family after their car crashes into a creek on Monday, 21st December, 2020

One family in Kermit, West Virginia, is home safe after being involved in a serious car wreck last week.

“It was around 11 p.m. and my grandmother lives just a few houses down from us,” said Emily Springer. “I decided for (me and my girls) to go down there and it wasn’t even a quarter of a mile away from my house when we crashed.”

Springer was driving her car along Marrowbone Creek Road in the Kermit area last Monday when she lost control and the car went over an embankment, ending up upside down in a creek. Both her 2-year-old daughter and 7-year-old daughter were in the backseat.

“I can just remember my car going and it was like, we’re going to go this way now. It was like, at the time, I hit black ice and hadn’t known it,” Springer told WSAZ.

After the crash, Springer said she asked her 7-year-old, Kenadie Springer, if she was able to get out of the car.

“She said ‘I think so’ and I heard her getting out,” she said. “(Then I) asked her ‘are you out’ and she said ‘yes’ and I didn’t even give her any directions on what to do, she just went off.”

“I was scared but I knew what to do: get out,” Kenadie Springer told WSAZ.

Once she was out of the freezing water, despite the 30-degree weather, she went door-to-door yelling for help. Meanwhile, Emily and her 2-year-old were trapped inside the car.



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