Epileptic driver credits 10 y.o. hero son
Published: July 31, 2006
A severely epileptic Edmonton dad is hailing his quick-thinking 10-year-old son as a hero after suffering a seizure behind the wheel of his car and nearly crashing head-on into a semi.
“Paul saved my life. It’s the second time he’s saved me when I’ve had a massive seizure,” Neil Ryley, 39, said of his son yesterday. “He’s a miracle child.”
Neil was driving Saturday when he suffered an incapacitating grand mal seizure. “My son was yelling ‘Dad, dad! There’s a truck coming!’ But I couldn’t react … a seizure like that is almost dreamlike.”
Paul reportedly reached across his dad’s lap and yanked the wheel an instant before they would have struck the rig head-on. The driver’s side of the car slammed into the side of the semi, shearing off the side mirror and the car’s body panel.
According to what Paul later told his father, Neil — still seizing — then took control of the wheel, drove through a ditch and into a field, where the car got stuck.
Neil says he’ll “probably never drive again.” In 2002 he rear-ended a stopped truck while doing 110 km/h. He broke his sternum and his licence was revoked but it was later reinstated.
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