Emergency driving lesson. (The Goodness of America).

Nine-year-old Jacoyia Polk attends third grade in Orlando, Florida. On October 24th, Jacoyia was riding in a vehicle driven by her 63-year-old grandmother when she suddenly realized that something was wrong. Jacoyia's grandmother was having a seizure, and the convulsions had caused her leg to stiffen on the accelerator before she passed out.

Jacoyia grabbed the steering wheel while trying to figure out how to slow the car. She was quoted later that day in a report by WKMG-TV (Orlando's CBS affiliate) as saying, "I had to move her legs. I had went under the steering wheel.... I thought about jumping out when it slowed down but I had to stay in and take care of my grandma."

Jacoyia was able to pull her grandmother's leg from the gas pedal, steer the car away from pedestrians and other cars, and eventually bring it to a stop by running it into a tree. She and her grandmother suffered some minor injuries from the collision, but otherwise emerged from the ordeal unscathed.

Paramedic Richard Rispoli, one of the emergency personnel who responded to the accident, praised Jacoyia, saying, "She made a lot of split-second decisions and saved a lot of people a lot of pain."