A California father is hailing his teenage son as a hero for saving his life when he became pinned under the family's truck.
father is hailing his teenage son as a hero for saving his life when he became pinned under the family's truck. that he and his son were fixing the brakes on his work truck late Monday night. Wilkinson said his son, Dalin, routinely works on the vehicle with him."I couldn't get a good angle, so I slid my body underneath the truck and was hitting it," he told KCRA. "The second it popped off, the truck fell.
Wilkinson couldn't remember how he escaped, but a surveillance camera recorded his son's physical feat. "I called my kid and had him look at them look at the surveillance camera, and they realized that he had lifted the truck enough for me to roll out," he said."It just dropped right on him. I was scared. I heard him make a noise like his soul was leaving his body. It was crazy," Dalin said. "I just ran over and tried as hard as I could to get it up enough to get him out.""My son is my hero," the elder Wilkinson said.
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