Winter Car Accident: Mom And Her Daughter Rescued After Spending 10 To 12 Hours Freezing In The Cold

A mom and her daughter were saved from the freezing cold 10 to 12 hours after a car accident in Killarney, Manitoba. The person, who saved the mother and daughter, was a stranger who noticed the injured mother trying to get over a guardrail on the road.

According to CBC, the stranger, who saved 26-year-old Kristen Hiebert and four-year-old Avery, is a lab technician named Tina Dubyts. When she saw Hiebert, her hair and clothes were covered with frost and had frostbites on her hand.

She was also just wearing socks, jeans, a hoodie and a jacket in a below-freezing temperature. These observations prompted Dubyts to turn her car around, call 911 and help out the mother and her daughter.

"She was in shock. She was obviously frozen," Dubyts said. "She just kept talking about her daughter."

It turned out that the mother and her daughter have been waiting for someone to help them for 10 to 12 hours already after crashing their car off Highway 23 and into a ditch. Fortunately, both the mother and daughter survived the ordeal. Hiebert suffered a broken arm, cracked rib and frostbites on her hand, knees, legs and feet. Hence, Avery suffered some scrapes and frostbite on her foot.

Hiebert kept her daughter alive by lying on top of her to keep her warm overnight. "She's the hero. I don't know how she went through all that pain," Dubyts spoke to CBC about Hiebert. "She had the will to live, that girl."

Likewise, the Simple Dollar shared some important things to have in a car especially during the winter season. A charged mobile phone, flares, flashlight, radio, batteries, tool kit, first aid kit, spare winter clothes, jumper cables, ice scraper, dried foods, shovel and tire sealant are some of the things that will help you survive in case of a winter car accident.