"Absolute little champion": 11-year-old boy saves elderly neighbour
Thanks to the calm and composed actions of Queensland boy, 11-year-old Ned Compton, his neighbour Elizabeth Taylor lives to see another day.
Ms Taylor had fallen in her backyard and was unable to get up. She was laying there for an hour before Ned heard her calls which he was watching TV two blocks down and immediately leapt into action.
The young boy had jumped on his bike and called triple-0 on the way.
“There’s an old lady that’s hurt?” Queensland Ambulance Service operator Terry Hands asked, in a recording of the emergency call.
Ned replied: “Yeah, I’m riding there on my bike right now.”
“How do you know that this old lady’s fallen down? What’s happening?” Hands asked.
“I called out (for) who needed help,” Ned replied.
“She’s been there for an hour ... I might jump the fence to see if she’s OK.”
Ned was able to provide clear information on his whereabouts for an ambulance to find them and come to the rescue.
“For an 11-year-old boy, he’s an absolute little champion,” Hands told Sunrise.
“He’s a triple-0 hero. He gave me the information and helped Elizabeth greatly that day.”
Ned and Taylor have now formed a firm friendship which even extends to Ned mowing her lawn. Ned said: “I didn’t want her falling over in the grass again and getting hurt”.
Ned is a local hero and his community are lucky to have him!
Image: Sunrise