{"id":158630,"date":"2026-02-17T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158630\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:48:17","slug":"florida-mom-reunites-with-hero-who-saved-her-and-her-3-children-after-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158630\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mom reunites with hero who saved her and her 3 children after car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Florida mother recently had an emotional reunion with the man who helped rescue her and her three children after a car crash last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shyneniqua Wilkins and her children were inside a car in Martin County last month when she had a medical emergency behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wilkins\u2019 car ran off the road and ended up upside down in a canal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Casey Curtis witnessed the crash from his rearview mirror while driving.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He immediately stopped his vehicle and jumped into the canal to reach Wilkins and her three children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Wilkins family has expressed that the bond formed during the rescue has changed their relationship with Curtis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rather than viewing him only as the man who stopped to help, they considered him a member of their family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">See their emotional reunion in the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida mother recently had an emotional reunion with the man who helped rescue her and her three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220,7071,75997,28,30,44770,29,1160,75996,75998],"class_list":["post-158630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-car","tag-children","tag-emotional-reunion","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-mother","tag-florida-news","tag-martin-county","tag-shyneniqua-wilkins","tag-wilkins-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158630","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=158630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}