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Thanks to her quick-thinking daughter and the song "Happy Birthday to You," Dana Encapera and her fellow motorists stayed safe Friday.
Dana and 11-year-old Sage Encapera took a mother-daughter shopping trip to Uniontown, Pa., Friday afternoon, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. As the 36-year-old mother drove home to Perryopolis, she experienced a seizure.
"My mom was talking to my dad on the phone and all of a sudden she just dropped the phone and grabbed her chest and started crying," Sage told WTAE-TV. "And I was, like, scared because I thought ... she might have been having a heart attack."
Evincing a remarkable memory and astounding self-possession, Sage took the steering wheel in one hand and checked her mother's pulse with the other. The fifth-grader harked back to a second-grade school visit by paramedics, who taught students to assess pulse rate using "Happy Birthday."
Once she ascertained her mom's rate was normal, Sage focused on setting the car onto a safe course. While Dana doesn't remember the incident, she must have retained some consciousness because she alternated her right foot between the gas and brake pedals.
Sage couldn't stop her, but she managed to steer the car from the left lane to the right, off the road, over several road signs and up an embankment, where it came to a stop.
Sage called 911, contacted her father, Anthony, and waited for help to arrive.
Dana suffered a minor back injury. Sage is being hailed as a hero.
"She saved my life. She saved her life. And she saved other people's lives. Because I don't know what could have happened if she didn't do that," Dana told WTAE.
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