RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An off-duty state trooper is being credited with saving a mother and her two children after their car skidded off a North Carolina road and flipped into a freezing creek.
The N.C. Highway Patrol says Trooper Christopher J. Matos was driving Friday along a rural road in Lenoir County when he saw a car traveling in the opposite direction slide off the icy asphalt.
Patrol spokesman Sgt. Michael Baker says Matos jumped into the water and pulled a 14-year-old child out of the passenger-side window of the partially-submerged car. He then helped the female driver unbuckle her infant from a child seat, handing the baby off to another motorist who had stopped to assist before guiding the woman to shore.
The mother and her children were treated for mild hypothermia.
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