Video: Teenage Heroes Share Stories

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BLUE SPRINGS, MISS. (WCBI) –  Two students at a union county school are being hailed as heroes for their quick thinking and action on not one, but two separate occasions, when they came upon wrecks heading to class.

Discussion in this Mississippi Writers Class at East Union Attendance Center went from literature to acts of heroism.

In February, Katlin Prewett and Tyler Bennett, both juniors at the attendance center, were on a bus with 20 or so other students heading to the vo tech center in New Albany, when they saw a van that had run off the road. Both students, rushed from the bus and ran to the van.

“I honestly thought she was dead.” Bennett said.

After first responders arrived, Tyler took a picture of the wreck, and Katlin was able to help the female driver, whom she found out was diabetic and hadn’t been hurt.

“I’m Type 2 diabetic myself and I had a choclate bar and some apples and Tyler went and got her diabetic bag, I checked her sugar and it was low, I gave her that choclate bar and it brought her sugar up,” Prewett said.

Then, a couple of weeks later, heading again to the vo tech center, their school bus came upon another one car wreck , once again, on Highway 348.

Katlin and Tyler rushed off their bus and talked to the driver, who had hit a tree and got whiplash.

“She had told us she had some spinal issues and so, we didn’t remove her because maybe she was paralyzed, whatever, she did say she couldn’t feel her feet, which worried us as well, we kept her calm, called 9 1 1,” Bennett said.

Although they haven’t seen the drivers since the wrecks, Katlin and Tyler have learned that both women are doing well.

Neither Katlin nor Tyler have had any formal medical training but say they felt called to step up and help out.

Both incidents have helped Katlin get a clear focus on her future plans.

“The Good Lord, He was answering my prayers as to what I was going to do, and since these two wrecks I know what I want to do is be an EMT or a paramedic,” Prewett said.

Tyler says he was only doing what people are supposed to do when faced with an emergency situation.

“If somebody is in need, help them, do unto others as you would want them to do unto you,” Bennett said.

By the way, Katlin and Tyler say both drivers were wearing their seatbelts, which made a huge difference in the outcomes of the wrecks.