KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An elderly man is very thankful to one three-year-old for saving him from being trapped in a hot car.
On Saturday afternoon sun was beating down on the man as he sat in the parking lot of his church, with outside temperatures in the 90s.
“We’ve had a little problem with the switch on this car,” Bob King said about his car.
King, who according to his wife, Jenny King, has difficulty seeing as a result of receiving numerous cancer treatments and from suffering two strokes in the past six months, was too weak to pull the lever and push the door open to get out when it locked automatically with him inside
King had been inside the vehicle about five minutes when three-year-old Keith Williams walked by.
“I hollered at him and he just looked at me kind of funny and I said, ‘Yeah I’m locked in here,” King said.
Williams acted quickly and knew exactly what to do. He went up to the church’s pastor, Jack Greene, and began tugging on his hand.
“He kept pulling at my hand and I eventually turned around and looked at him and said what’s going on and he said ‘Locked, locked!?” Greene said.
Williams knew the man needed help.
“He was hot,” said Williams.
“I am very impressed and I’m proud that he would know what to do,” said William’s mother, Jessie Williams.
Greene was able to open to open King’s car door from the outside, helping him out of the sweltering car.
“I’m very thankful,” King says. “I don’t know how long it had been. I’d say it probably be another 20 minutes sitting in there if he hadn’t notified somebody.”
King says he was just thankful little Williams had been there.