Quick Thinking By 9-Year-Old Saves Several Lives

PIERCE COUNTY - Quick thinking by a 9-year-old boy saved his family from a sure disaster.

They were driving down the road when his mother suffered a stroke and blacked out. What the little boy did next saved their lives.

Quentin Martin's family is sure glad he went along for the ride Wednesday because he turned from little boy into big hero.

With his little sister Tyra in the backseat, Quentin and his mother were driving through Fort Lewis when she started having vision problems and blacked out. The car was still rolling and started to swerve into on-coming traffic.

Quentin then reached over and turned the keys to cut the engine, then pushed their car's "OnStar" button. "The medics came and got my momma out of the car unconscious," Quentin said.

He added that his mother had always taught him to push the button in case of emergency.

Quentin's mother Vivian Grant had suffered what appeared to be a stroke.

"It gives me so much joy to know how you think your kid isn't paying attention," Vivian said. "But it really touched my heart that he saved me and my daughter and his life."

And he prevented their car from hitting others head-on. Quentin's grandfather Howard Grant says, "And you don't know how many people were in the other cars coming forward. So he saved maybe 5 or 6 lives." Quentin's mother is still in the hospital while doctors try to figure out why she blacked out.