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Cody Barenbrugge, 16, and his sister Lindsey Miller, 15, are both freshmen at Bloomfield (Indiana) Junior-Senior High School and both are cadets in the Navy's Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC).
Last November, Cody was driving to school with his sister when their usual route was blocked because of an accident. Cody took an unpaved gravel road, but while rounding a curve, his car began sliding. He braked in an attempt to slow down, but the car slid off the road and landed upside down in a stream, in over four feet of water.
The pair were hanging upside down from their seat belts but Lindsey, traumatized by the incident, did not move.
"She just froze," Cody told the Greene County Daily World (Indiana).
Cody unbuckled his sister and helped her into the back seat, where he thought an air pocket would form and buy them some time to make their escape. He kicked out the glass from the passenger side window and, as the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Brotherly love.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief article)