Boy, 7, Saves Pregnant Mother After Car Crashes on Mountain Road

DENVER —  A 7-year-old boy whose pregnant mother had just broken her neck in a crash crawled through the shattered window of their car and made his way to a dirt road to summon help.

Kristi Stewart, 28, of Grand Junction, rolled the car off a mountain road in the darkness and was hurled through the vehicle’s window. She was eight months’ pregnant and couldn’t move her arms and legs.

“I thought she could get up, but she couldn’t,” Matthew Stewart, a shy, dark-haired second-grader said Friday at his mother’s hospital bedside. “I was scared. . . . I thought I should help my mom, help her get help.”

He covered his mother with a blanket. As his 2-year-old sister, Amanda, sobbed in her car seat, Matthew scrambled through bushes and weeds to reach the dirt road near the small mountain town of Kremmling, 79 miles west of Denver.

He stuck out a thumb, but the people in the first car he flagged down refused to help. On his second try, Matthew stopped a couple who quickly called authorities and stayed with the family until help arrived.

Stewart delivered a 5-pound, 4-ounce son the day after the Aug. 1 accident and slowly is regaining use of her arms and legs. Doctors expect her to recover fully. The children suffered only minor cuts and bruises.

“I’m very proud of him,” Stewart said of her son during a hospital news conference. “If it is wasn’t for him, I don’t think I’d be here today.”