10-year-old Gryffin Sanders was riding with his 74-year-old grandmother and 4-year-old younger brother in Colorado when his grandma passed out at the wheel.
Luckily Gryffin had acquired some driving skills by go-karting and playing the video game “Mario Kart,” and put those skills into action, saving himself, his brother and grandmother.
“My first thought was actually, is this a test or what?” Gryffin, 10, said. “My heart was thumping.”
Gryffin said his great grandmother, 74-year-old Darlene Nestor, passed out while in mid-sentence.
“I tried to wake her up at first,” Gryffin said. “Then, I just took the wheel and drove it into the ditch.”
This all happened Friday afternoon on the eastern plains near the town of Hugo. Gryffin was visiting relatives when he and his 4-year-old brother were riding with Nestor. Gryffin was sitting in the front seat when he realized their car was veering towards oncoming traffic.
“I wanted us to get somewhere where we could out of the way of traffic, I guess,” Gryffin said.
His father, Sean Sanders, calls him a hero.
“It was all him and he made a very wide decision at a very critical moment and I couldn’t be a prouder father,” Sean said.
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