4-Year-Old Twins Climbed To Safety After Car Crash Killed Father

4-year-old twin girls have survived a car crash that killed their father and climbed about 200 feet (61 meters) up to the embankment by the roadside to their safety, Washington State Authorities, said.

The girls were in the backseat with seatbelts fastened around them when the car crashed on Whidbey Island, 34 miles (55 kilometers) north of Seattle, around 6 p.m. Friday, King-TV reported.

The crash claimed the life of their father Corey Simmons, 47, as identified by Washington State Patrol (WSP). The girls then freed themselves and made it to their safety seeking help. Simmons was not wearing a seatbelt when the car collided with the trees and slid down the steep embankment, according to the authorities.

An unidentified woman, who was driving by, pulled up near the girls and passed them on the side of the road before dialing 911, WSP Trooper Heather Axtman, said. The girls were then transported to a hospital with minor injuries.

The woman hailed as a Good Samaritan for helping the children, is now being searched by the family to “personally meet and thank her,” Rebecah Crider, Simmons' stepdaughter, said.

“We are so incredibly thankful, and we are desperately looking for who she is,” Crider told King-TV.

Authorities were able to locate the woman but she didn’t approve of her name getting published, Axtman said.

In a multi-car crash in November, a toddler was resurrected by a Good Samaritan but he died two days later from his injuries. On Nov. 30, A ram pick-up truck traveling eastbound crashed into a Toyota Camry in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. The crash got two other vehicles involved in the collision leaving a 2-year-old toddler inside the Toyota Camry critically injured. 29-year-old Mitch Keenan Heidmann, whose vehicle too got involved in the car pileup, jumped out of his damaged car and started performing CPR on the toddler. Police did praise Heidmann for his thoughtful act.