An 18-year-old girl is being called a hero after she jumped in to save a stranger struck on the railroad tracks last week.
Lilly Baker was driving to meet friends in Giles County when she noticed an older woman struggling to cross the tracks with a wheelchair.
Lilly tells you her miraculous story in the player above.
In a matter of seconds, she gets out of her car, rushes over, and tries to pull the woman to safety, but they fall twice.
That’s when she notices the train coming right at them.
“He was honking his horn and the lights started flashing I was like, ‘Oh no, we gotta go now!'” remembered Baker.
She said she pulled the woman and herself out of the way at the very last second.
“It’s a near-death experience, and I’ve never really been that close to death,” she said. “[The railroad company] told me that I was 18 inches away from getting hit by the train, and that in itself gave me the chills. I almost started crying.”
Ardmore Police Chief Jereme Robison, who responded to the scene, says he has seen a lot, but nothing like this.