{"id":118627,"date":"2026-01-15T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118627\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:29:08","slug":"stranger-rescues-pair-of-toddlers-who-wandered-onto-busy-florida-road-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118627\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger rescues pair of toddlers who wandered onto busy Florida road: video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stranger rushed to rescue two toddlers who wandered into busy traffic in Florida while their clueless family was blocks away at an Airbnb, according to harrowing footage. <\/p>\n<p>John Brittingham, a father of five, was cruising through Brevard County on Sunday after wrapping up a real estate photo shoot when he personally halted traffic to help two little girls who toddled right into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>He pulled over and scooped up the first toddler, who had wandered into the middle of the road, in one arm while waving his free hand to stop the other drivers on the road.<\/p>\n<p>John Brittingham saved two young girls who walked right into heavy traffic in Florida on Sunday. Facebook \/ Drone Geox LLC<\/p>\n<p>The second girl, who was closer to the sidewalk, shuffled over to him and held her arms out. <\/p>\n<p>Brittingham hardly missed a beat as he bent down and picked her up before briskly walking to the sidewalk and down a residential street, according to his car\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2142069033266958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">dash camera footage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was terrified thinking of what could have happened to them. The rest of my life would have been ruined,\u201d Brittingham told <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/florida\/man-rescues-wandering-toddlers-from-middle-of-busy-traffic-in-brevard-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">WESH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the toddlers held her arms out as Brittingham approached.  Facebook \/ Drone Geox LLC<\/p>\n<p>The girls were back on the sidewalk within six seconds, but their parents were nowhere in sight. <\/p>\n<p>He surmised the pair couldn\u2019t have been older than 2 years old, and were simply \u201cadorable\u201d as they \u201cput their little arms out\u201d to be carried to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Brittingham went door-to-door on a nearby street in a desperate attempt to locate the girls\u2019 family. <\/p>\n<p>The good Samaritan eventually arrived at an Airbnb and, after a fair amount of shouting, got the occupants\u2019 attention. <\/p>\n<p>He told the outlet that the toddlers\u2019 family, consisting of \u201can elderly couple and a young girl,\u201d apologized profusely.<\/p>\n<p>Brittingham said he was \u201cterrified\u201d for the pair.  FOX 35 Orlando<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Yeah, I know, I\u2019m just glad I could get them back to you. They were out in the road, and your gate was open\u2019,\u201d Brittingham recounted to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Brittingham said he didn\u2019t call the police because his \u201cmain concern was to reunite them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Brittingham\u2019s employer, a Florida-based drone company, implored drivers to \u201cslow the F down\u201d and bashed the strangers for \u201chonking\u201d at the wayward girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all this could have turned out so tragic,\u201d the company wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease always watch out. You never know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranger rushed to rescue two toddlers who wandered into busy traffic in Florida while their clueless family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,723,59626,729,4278,1045],"class_list":["post-118627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-rescue","tag-toddlers","tag-traffic","tag-us-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}