Boy’s late-night bicycle dash in his pyjamas saves father after heart attack

A boy of five saved his father’s life when he had a heart attack, by rushing out of his house in his pyjamas and trying to get help on his bike. Kevin-Djene was found cycling along a rural road in France looking for his mother. He was discovered late at night shivering by motorist Jean-Francois Pinot, who alerted the emergency services. They managed to get enough information from the boy to track down his house in 30 minutes. Inside the home, in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, east of Brittany, they found his father in cardiac arrest and took him to hospital for urgent medical treatment.

This boy is incredible! What he has done is very clever.

Motorist Jean-Francois Pinot

Mr Pinot said: “I was driving on the main road where I met many cars and one of them flashed his main beam at me. I continued carefully and before I saw what looked like a child on a bike. This is where I discovered Kevin-Djene in pyjamas and slippers in the rain freezing cold. The little boy didn’t wait a second to raise the alarm. He said, ‘my dad died’." The child’s mother, Djeneba Godin, was tracked down by officers and told what had happened. She said she was shocked by what she had found out but very grateful to Mr Pinot.

Jean-François has saved the life of my husband, who was released Thursday from the hospital, but also that of my son who was alone at night on the road.

Wife Djeneba Godin

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