Kassandra Jenne Guymon saved a boy from being struck by a train, Sunset, Utah, March 13, 2002. Seeing a 4-year-old boy standing unattended along a railroad track at a crossing, Kassandra, 17, high school student, who was passing by in a vehicle, stopped at a nearby house to make inquiry. While there, she saw and heard a train approaching. Kassandra immediately ran 225 feet to the boy, who was at the edge of the track on which the train was traveling at about 40 m.p.h. Reaching him when the train was about 100 feet away, Kassandra grasped the boy and pulled him away from the track. The front of the train passed them within moments. It did not stop.
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