Teens Help Teens Injured in Accident Yesterday on Hwy 96
Yesterday about 5 p.m., a Jeep overturned on Hwy 96 causing injuries to one of the young occupants. But two other young teens arrived at the scene and provided aid until professionals could get there. The grandmother of one of the teens, Nena Huitt (and partner of our reporter Bobby Kroeker), explained that the two teens helped 17-year-old victims after they came upon the crash.
Huitt said she is “proud of how the kids handled it..not afraid to kneel down and help another teen and even got blood on them… they kept their cool and Faith is only 15.”
Faithfully Kibby (one of the four Yurok girls dressed traditionally who participated in the historic ceremony marking the end of the dams on the Klamath River-see photo at the top of the Lost Coast Outpost’s story) and her friend Shannon were riding with Huitt when they saw the wreck. “We came up on the accident as it happened..seconds before we would have been in it…I stopped the car and they both jumped out [and] ran across…to do what they could…[for] the boys that were trying to crawl out of the vehicle,” explained Huitt.
Later, they learned that the Jeep had “fishtailed” and the driver had overcorrected and gone off the road.
One of the boys was bleeding badly from one arm, Huitt said, so they applied a tourniquet. However, as they waited for an ambulance to get to the crash scene, the victim’s hand began “turning blue so [Shannon] ended up holding his hand up while help arrived…hard as it was, he held that young boy’s hand up in the air and talked to him the whole time.” The boy, she said, began losing feeling in his lower extremities “due to shock.”
When the professionals arrived, Huitt said, “the one teen hugged Shannon and you don’t see boy teens….hug it out.”
In the end, explained Huitt, “One teen was taken to Mad River [Hospital].”
Huitt said that her granddaughter, Faithfully, and Shannon were incredibly competent even trying to make sure that Huitt stayed out of the sun and didn’t get overheated. “They are heroes,” she said.
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Wow. Incredible young people.
Great story! Great young teens! And hurray for Red Cross Training!
Super way to start a day by reading this…reminds me how kind people
can be.
It’s nice to know that some parents raise wonderful children in today’s world.THANKS to the great young folks who stopped,your heros!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for stoping and helping out my boy.
He is doing better but has a long recovery.
I’m so glad he’s doing ok.god speed for a.fast recovery.
Hey how is he? I didn’t realize who it was til I saw this!!! Give him loves from AUNT Marcy
Great job Faith and Shannon, proud of both of you!
Great job, ladies! 😘
Shannon is actual a wonderful young MAN.
I do believe in people.
Good people.
Young people,old people and all people between.
Most are good people. A few are not.
Thank you to the young people who showed their goodness by assisting others in immediate need.
Cheers ,to good people!
Big shoutout to you guys, thank you for helping us. I was so scared and confused, I guess my jeep was locked into 4wd which I was unaware of. But as first responders you all helped tons, and I can’t thank you enough for that❤️
Glad to hear your ok.humboldt folks rock!!!
Awesome kindness. Good kids. Hope victims will be ok.
Thank for the update and letting the community know about the awesome teens who stopped to assist! Will be keeping the passengers in prayers for healing.
I love hearing good news. Wish there was more of it. Kudos to these young people who never hesitated to help two strangers in need.
This is so sad, that same Jeep passed me at bull creek on a double yellow and on a blind curve. I told my boy that those kids were going to wreck.
Faith you are such an amazing young woman!!! You are wise and stronger beyond your years! Proud of you
I love hearing stories like these, we have awesome people in our community. Thanks for the share