Homeless man rescued (9yr old) girl in North Las Vegas crash

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Stan Washburn thought of his own daughters on Saturday as he looked at the bloodied face of 9-year-old girl and tried to heave a 5,000-pound car off her contorted body.
"I could see them in her eyes from time to time beneath all the blood," the 48-year-old homeless man told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"I mean, I knew it wasn't one of my little girls, but I remember them when they were that little, and I knew it was somebody's little girl. I was devastated by the accident. I just couldn't let her die.'"

It was 2:30 p.m. Saturday as the one-eyed Washburn sat drinking beer with friends on a cement wall between a Jack In The Box restaurant and the Silver Nugget Bowling Center in North Las Vegas.

He saw the 9-year-old girl, who had been waiting across the street with an older woman, suddenly run into the street, straight into the path of a late model Cadillac, Washburn said Monday.

Brakes screamed. So did the older woman. Washburn is sure he could hear the girl, who was being dragged under the car, yelling "No."

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