Young Girl Saves Dad From Crash By Flagging Down Traffic to Get Medical Help

A quick-thinking seven-year-old girl has saved her dad as she flagged down traffic to get medical help after a car crash.

Ella Rawes was with her father, James when the car her father was driving crashed on to a tree on Wuraga Rd, Bahrs Scrub.

Mr Rawes was driving from his Logan Village business, Raw Mechanical, to the Greenbank home he shares with his partner, Teneika and daughter, Ella, at around 6.20pm last May 3 when the incident happened. He said that he has no memory of the incident and said the last thing he remembered was talking to someone at work and then waking up in the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital.

Ella only sustained a small bruise while her father suffered broken ribs, a broken nose, lacerations to his right leg and an exposed kneecap on the left leg.

The father’s fate could have been much worse if not for his quick-thinking daughter.

“I’ve been told she climbed across me while I was unconscious, because she couldn’t get out her side of the car, and flagged down traffic for someone to call an ambulance,” Mr Rawes said.

When asked what she said to the first motorist who responded, Ella said:

“I told them ‘someone save my daddy’…Daddy’s hurt.”

Mr Rawes said that it was as if his daughter knew there was something unusual that day that she travelled with him, since she generally travels home with her mother. “She was adamant that she was coming with me; it was like she knew something was going to happen,” he said.

Mr Rawes said he is proud of his daughter. “It just makes me so proud that she would be so ­composed in that situation,” he said.

Source: Couriermail.com.au