A young girl who saved her little brother’s life after her parents were tragically killed in a Christmas Day accident in Kondinin has been awarded an award for bravery.
Jake Day, 28, and Cindy Braddock, 25, died after their Land Rover veered off Corrigin-Kondinin Road in WA’s Wheatbelt and flipped just a few miles from their family home.
Synthia Rose Day, 5, and her two younger siblings, who were in the back, survived the crash but were not found for 55 hours as authorities and loved ones searched frantically for the missing family.
Synthia unfastened her one-year-old brother Charles’ seatbelt and freed him from the wreckage shortly after the crash. The children were eventually found along the road.
That’s what the uncle of the trio, Al Slatter, told me 9 News Perth the Lions International Courage Award meant a lot to the orphaned toddler, who was now being raised by her grandparents along with Charles and her other brother Bevan, 2.
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“The award will mean so much to her, and I even got tears in my eyes when they read it to me, because she’s a special girl,” he said.
“Charles, she loves him, but Bevan, wherever he goes when he rides his balance bike out front, she needs to keep an eye on him and make sure he’s not too far from Nanny.”
Synthia was nominated for the award by her teacher, Tony Smeed.
