A 4-YEAR-OLD boy internally decapitated in a violent crash in the U.S. has miraculously survived, thanks to a kind stranger who held his head perfectly still after his skull separated from his spine, his family says.
Killian Gonzalez is expected to make a full recovery after sustaining the rare injury that less than 1 percent survive, and which usually leaves victims paralyzed or dead.
The child’s family is crediting the quick-thinking of Good Samaritan, Leah Woodward, for saving his life after she and her husband drove up to the scene moments after the crash, ABC7 reported.
“She saved my baby,” his mother, Brandy Gonzalez, told the station. “She gave me him back.”
The family said Woodward held Killian’s head perfectly still for more than half an hour as they waited for paramedics to arrive at the scene.
And thanks to her help, Killian has not had to undergo surgery and is now in recovery, sitting up on his own, eating and walking, according to the station.
“He’s shocked everyone there. They keep telling me he’s the talk of the hospital,” his mother told KBOI.
In what would lead to Killian’s incredible story of survival, it started one stormy day as he and his mother were headed home to Nevada from Idaho after celebrating his fourth birthday.
Ice on the road caused their car to skid before crashing into another SUV.
Woodward and her Nampa police officer husband were coming down the hill as the crash unfolded before their eyes, and the pair ended up being the first people on scene, according to KBOI.
As they rushed out of their car to check if there were any survivors, they heard a child screaming.
“We could hear a kid screaming, a little baby screaming,” Woodward told ABC7.
“And my husband took a hitch ... somebody had a hitch ... and he smashed out the back window of Brandy’s vehicle.”
After breaking their way into the locked car, she realized the severity of Killian’s condition. She sat up the child before holding his head still for more than half an hour.(SD-Agencies)
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