Michael Askins, 7, and his mother, Jonni Evans, 25, were seriously injured in a car crash in Ohio last month
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- Jonni Evans and her 7-year-old son Michael were both seriously injured in a car crash in Ohio on Aug. 6
- Michael’s family sought the public’s help in finding the two men who performed CPR and life compressions on the boy
- Christopher Collette and David Sebastian tell PEOPLE they plan to unite with the family once Michael is released from the hospital
Jonni Evans had just left her son’s doctor’s appointment when she drove through what she believed was a puddle on an Ohio highway last month. Within seconds, her car started to hydroplane, sending her and her 7-year-old son Michael, who was in the backseat, across the center line into oncoming traffic.
When she opened her eyes, her windshield was shattered and the car was smoky. She screamed for someone to get Michael, who was silent behind her.
“I was trapped. My legs were stuck,” Evans tells PEOPLE through tears. “I couldn’t see. I literally couldn’t move at all, and I just started screaming on top of my lungs for someone to get my son out the car.”…