A driver heading down a treacherous wooded freeway spotted a little girl on the side of the road, barefoot and alone, flagging for help.
They pulled over, and the desperate girl would lead them to a horrible scene that was far from where she was found.
Little 5-year-old Lexi Shymanski had gone with her mom Angela and baby brother Peter on a drive from their home in Prince George, British Columbia to Calgary.
With soft lullaby music playing for her kids in the car, the mother nodded off at the wheel. The family’s car careened off the road and plunged down a 40 foot cliff into the rocky terrain. The crash knocked Lexi out, and when she awoke, she saw her mother hunched over the wheel and her brother was crying, while she herself was covered in scratches.
Knowing that the car could not be seen by other drivers, as they were down in a deep ravine, Lexi did the unthinkable for a child her size. She had been strapped tight in a five-point harnessed car seat, that she’s never been able to get out of before, but somehow she managed to Macgyver her way free from the restraints and ultimately out of the car. Then, barefoot, she climbed the rocky cliff to get to the street above and signal for help for her family.
