HUDSON, IOWA (AP) -- The family of young Alexa Tofte say quick thinking by the 8-year-old Hudson girl averted a tragedy over the weekend.
Alexa's grandmother, Karen Parks, was driving her granddaughter to her home in Waterloo for a weekend visit when she began getting shaky, sweating profusely and veering wildly back and forth across U.S. Route 63.
Alexa realized something was wrong, so when her grandmother didn't respond to her pleas, she grabbed the steering wheel herself and pulled the car off the road.
The 67-year-old Parks then passed out from a diabetic coma.
Alexa then took the car keys, ran across a field, climbed a fence and ran down a sidewalk to the house of a friend she remembered from a birthday party. The friend's father then called 911 and got in touch with Alexa's mother.
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