Family of 3 Saves 75-Year-Old Woman from Overturned Car in Canal

Cyle Johnson and Ashley Martin's 6-year-old daughter notified them of the crash before the parents sprang into action

A family of three is being hailed as heroes by authorities after they sprang into action to save an elderly woman whose car overturned into a canal.

Cyle Johnson, 28, and his wife Ashley Martin, 27, were visiting a home on Larkin Road in Live Oak, Calif., at around 12:20 p.m. local time on Monday, Nov. 25, when their 6-year-old daughter, who was playing out front, saw the crash, the California Highway Patrol Yuba-Sutter division wrote in a Facebook post.

The young girl ran inside the house to tell her parents, authorities said, which prompted Cyle to jump the front fence and into the canal, while Ashley ran outside to help.

The car, belonging to 75-year-old Robbie Carpenter, had landed upside down into an irrigation canal filled with about 2 feet of water from recent rainfall, per the social media post.

The couple found Carpenter unresponsive and still buckled in the driver's seat, with her head submerged in the water, officials said.

Cyle then reached into the car, opened the door, and forced it open, before an unknown passerby stopped to help by providing a knife to cut the seat belt.

Together, they were all able to pull Carpenter to safety, and they stayed with her until first responders arrived, authorities said. They added that Carpenter was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.

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“Had it not been for the heroic actions of Cyle, Ashley, and their daughter, this would have been a much different outcome,” officials said in the post. “We applaud the life saving actions demonstrated by this family!”

The California Highway Patrol further praised Cyle, noting that this was not his first time helping someone following a car crash. Officials said he was first at the scene of a fatal wrong-way crash in October on SR-99 near Howsley Road, where he helped an injured man who was recently released from the hospital.

"Cyle is that one guy you need in your time of need,” officials said.