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On May 3, Jim Leslie and his fiancee, Audrey Haire of Pocatello, Idaho, were riding their ATVs on a rugged trail. As Jim reached the top of a ravine he looked back and saw that Audrey's ATV had stalled and had started to roll backward.
Audrey was thrown off the 800-pound vehicle and watched in fear as it rolled toward her. She described her experience to KPVI News 6 in Pocatello: "I saw the four-wheeler coming. I remember just saying a prayer--'God please let it keep rolling when it hits me.'" The runaway vehicle hit Audrey several times and injured her seriously. Jim recalled: "She was laying in the middle of a trail curled up in fetal position and she was screaming because she was hurting so bad."
Jim called 911 and told the dispatchers where help was needed, but the location was difficult to find. As time passed and Jim waited for emergency crews to arrive, Audrey's condition worsened and Jim was torn between waiting with Audrey for rescuers or leaving for help and possibly allowing Audrey to die alone. He told reporters that he was very fearful about his beloved Audrey's prospects: "All the screaming stopped and she says I'm tired and I wanna go to sleep. That's a very ominous symptom. That scared me and that's when I said my prayer and that's when these guys showed up."
The "guys who showed up" were not professional emergency personnel, but four teenage boys--Ryan ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Teens help accident victim.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Ryan Cox, Mathew...