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Nine-year-old Jacoyia Polk attends third grade in Orlando, Florida. On October 24th, Jacoyia was riding in a vehicle driven by her 63-year-old grandmother when she suddenly realized that something was wrong. Jacoyia's grandmother was having a seizure, and the convulsions had caused her leg to stiffen on the accelerator before she passed out.
Jacoyia grabbed the steering wheel while trying to figure out how to slow the car. She was quoted later that day in a report by WKMG-TV (Orlando's CBS affiliate) as saying, "I had to move her legs. I had went under the steering wheel.... I thought ...