ABA Brave Youth Of The Year 2021

Jesse Carter

Citation:

Mr Jesse CARTER, WA

Mr Jesse Carter is commended for brave conduct for his actions after his mother had a seizure while driving in Shenton Park, Western Australia on 3 November 2021.

Just before 9:00am, Mr Jesse Carter was being driven by his mother to the train station to attend school. Mr Carter and his mother were stopped at an intersection when he noticed her speech had become flustered and she was stuttering. Mr Carter's mother stopped talking, began to shake and then slumped unresponsive into her seat, with her foot on the accelerator.

The car moved forward as Mr Carter tried to rouse his mother. Mr Carter held the steering wheel to prevent the car from leaving the road with his right hand, and called triple zero with his left. The vehicle was driving on the wrong side of the road. Mr Carter heard the recorded message and yelled for an ambulance, then discarded the phone as the car increased in speed and approached a set of traffic lights. Mr Carter steered into the correct lane and passed through red traffic lights without incident.

Mr Carter noticed that there were pedestrians crossing the road ahead. Mr Carter steered the car into a brick wall to avoid a collision with the pedestrians. The car mounted the footpath, crashed into the wall and came to a stop.

Paramedics arrived shortly after and treated Mr Carter, who had broken both legs and his right arm. He was later extracted from the vehicle by emergency services.