8-year-old Mass. boy helps save dad trapped in car

An 8-year-old Massachusetts boy helped save his dad trapped in a car crash early this morning. The 8-year-old Massachusetts boy was in the car, but was able to get out and seek help. 

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An 8-year-old Massachusetts, pictured, sought help for his dad after the car they were in crashed onto a river sandbar.

An 8-year-old Massachusetts boy is being credited with helping saving his father after their car crashed through a guardrail and landed upside down on a sandbar in the middle of a river.

Authorities say Eugenio Garcia of Fitchburg was trapped in the vehicle in the Nashua River after the crash, which occurred at about 3 a.m. on July 4.

But his son, 8-year-old Joshua, wriggled out the wreckage, waded through the rushing water, scaled an embankment, then walked more than half a mile home to alert his mother, who called 911.

Mr. Garcia was rescued at about 3:30 a.m., then treated for minor injuries and released from a hospital.

Fire officials say if the car had landed in the water, it would have been fatal to both father and son.

The crash remains under investigation.

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