Teen hero climbs up bank with broken arm after crash
Published: October 12, 2004
To save yourself, a baby, your parents. To walk into the schoolyard and face the crowd. To not be understood because you’re the first unique person. To be a hero teen in the face of Life.
Your kid is a hero.
A 13-year-old Tauranga girl badly injured in a road crash near Te Puke hauled herself and her baby sister up a cliff in the dark to find help for her parents who lay injured in the family van.
Danielle Frost, her 13-month-old sister, Marissa, and parents Barry and Cheryl had been returning from a sheepdog show in Wellington at 2am on Monday when their van went off the road at the top of Three Mile Hill on State Highway 33, rolling 50m down a bank.
Danielle, with a broken arm and cuts to her face, managed to climb up the bank carrying Marissa and flagged down a passing car for help, an Auckland newspaper reported today.
Trapped in the vehicle for over two hours, Mrs Frost was yesterday in a stable condition in intensive care at Tauranga Hospital.
Danielle was also recovering at the hospital after surgery and Mr Frost had an operation on Monday and was discharged.
Baby Marissa had sustained minor injuries and was being looked after by friends.
The family’s 13 miniature collies travelling in the van wandered away after the crash.
By yesterday afternoon searchers had found 10 of them.
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