You never know when you’ll be given the chance to save a life. During St. Patrick’s Day weekend, Molly McCollum, Jane McArdle, Eleanor Cart, Clarke Jones and Kaitlyn Lannace chose to celebrate off campus. They took a long detour before stopping for lunch, causing them to reroute down a particularly rural area. Little did these sorority sisters know that, in doing so, they’d save a mom and her two sons.
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It all started when Molly noticed a “spark of white, a little cloud of dust” and a “big old crash.” Getting a closer look through the trees and shrubbery, they saw a car was in the nearby water. A woman had managed to get onto the roof but was screaming out for help, making it known her children were still in the car. Without hesitating, the five of them leapt into action with one calling 911.
Mom, Cori Craft, was understandably hysterical. Still, she managed to help these kind sorority sisters get her sons out. Getting her oldest to safety was fairly easy, but it was much trickier to help her youngest. He was still buckled in is car seat.
“Time is ticking,” Molly recalls. “It had been like 4 to 5 minutes … it was just, like, every second mattered.”
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Once out of the car, the 4-year-old was unconscious. Thankfully, Clarke has a summer of lifeguard training up her sleeve. This allowed her to perform CPR, saving his life. The relief when he started to breathe again is indescribable.
Brave Sorority Sisters Save a Mom and Her Sons
“And at that point, like, all of us were crying,” Molly says. “And it was like, ‘No way that just happened.'”
Needless to say, Cori couldn’t be more grateful for the kindness of these sorority sisters. Plus, this experience has given these brave women a new outlook on life.
“It’s also … just made me rethink, like, day to day, it’s more about just like [having] a mindset of altruism and just like searching for [anyone] who needs help in the world around you,” Molly shares.
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