I don't know their name, but they deserve an extra special, outstanding human being award to, just for being so outstanding.
Two Edmonton teens are thanking a man who they say saved their lives when he put his vehicle between them and an alleged distracted driver at an intersection last week.
"If it wasn't for that guy, I'm pretty sure that I would be dead," said Janice Marett.
Marett, 15, was crossing the street at a crosswalk just outside the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre with her friend, Chase Feduik, as well as her boyfriend and Feduik’s young cousin.
Janice Marett has no doubt she would have been killed had Darrell Krushelnicki not slammed his Hummer into an oncoming Pontiac. (CBC News)
The four started to cross after traffic stopped for them. They didn't notice that a silver Pontiac, whose driver police say was using a cellphone, wasn't stopping.
Darrell Krushelnicki, who was getting ready to pull out of the mall parking lot, did see the car. He drove his Hummer forward, deliberately smashing it into the Pontiac.
The teens say both vehicles stopped feet away from them.
"We didn't even know it was happening and we heard a big smash, and there was a Black hummer with a grey car … you could hear the