Two teens are being praised for their heroism after helping rescue a toddler whose mother died in a car crash in Illinois.
The teens—Hunter Hasenjaeger, 16, and Collin Barry, 17—were heading home from a friend’s house in Minooka, Illinois, when they spotted a crash.
They saw people at the scene yelling amid debris and rubble. “They were screaming, saying there was a baby in the car, and we could hear the baby screaming and crying,” Hasenjaeger said.
When he looked inside the car wreck, Hasenjaeger saw a 1-year-old girl. He also saw the mother, later identified as 27-year-old Alexis Danley, in the front seat in serious condition.
“I just kept telling the mom that her baby was OK and that she was OK and that she'd be fine,” Hasenjaeger told Inside Edition. “She couldn’t really respond, but I knew that she most likely heard me.”
“We took her out and she quit crying,” Barry added. “The baby was so peaceful, like she wasn’t crying or anything, so if the family was gonna see [what happened], just wanted them to know the baby wasn’t freaking out or anything.”
Danley was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, while the baby was hospitalized and released to family members. Danley’s Chrysler 300 was hit by a Chevy Silverado.
“She was hanging out the front of the car,” Barry said of Danley.
“Her arm was hanging out and her other hand was reached back grabbing the baby seat.”
Kaminski was hospitalized and was later sent to the Kendall County Jail.
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