By Canadian Press

N.S. girl earns bravery award for saving family from van that plunged into river

Dec 4, 2019 | 8:47 AM

HALIFAX — An eight-year-old Nova Scotia girl who helped rescue her family from a van that plunged into a river has received a bravery award from the premier.

Sophia Grace LeBlanc of Amherst and two siblings were in a van driven by their mother on Nov. 11, 2018, when the vehicle left Highway 204 near Little River and landed on its roof in the water.

Sophia’s siblings — a two-year-old sister and four-year-old brother — were trapped upside down in the vehicle.

Her little brother was unconscious and her mother was too injured to get out.

Sophia — who was six at the time — unbuckled her sister’s seatbelt and got her out of the vehicle before climbing out to flag down another motorist for help.

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Sophia is the youngest Nova Scotian to receive the award.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 4, 2019.

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