a nine year old girl has been praised by police after grabbing the steering wheel and driving her family including her little sister to safety when her mother had a seizure in the driver's seat jacey jones, who is in the fourth grade, was traveling down a curvy road in bay city, michigan, with her younger sibling and mother, samantha jones, last september when the latter started fitting as mrs jones fell unconscious, jacey, who was in the back seat of her family's hyundai, climbed into the front and took hold of the wheel she then drove the short distance to her school's parking lot there, she drove the car around in circles until she attracted the attention of a passing parent the adult then opened the vehicle's door and put it in park, before lifting the girls out and calling 911 scroll down for video  'hero': jacey jones (left) has been praised by police after grabbing the steering wheel and driving her family including her little sister to safety when her mother, samantha jones (right), had a seizure in the driver's seat  thankful: jacey (pictured with mrs jones on thursday), who is in the fourth grade, was traveling down a curvy road in bay city, michigan, with her younger sibling and mother last september when the latter started fitting  as mrs jones fell unconscious, jacey, who was in the back seat of her family's hyundai, climbed into the front and took hold of the wheel she then drove down westside saginaw road (pictured) to her school's parking lot  mrs jones was rushed to hospital, where she awoke a few hours later to hear of jacey's heroics meanwhile, her husband, jeff, raced to the school, where he immediately spotted the hyundai incredibly, the dark colored car had sustained only a smashed window and a torn off panel in the incident it later emerged it had crashed into several mailboxes en route to the elementary school now, jacey, the eldest of four sisters, has been handed a distinguished citizens award by michigan state police for her actions, which mrs jones said likely saved her and her young daughters' lives speaking to nbc 25, on thursday, the mother of four said: 'i was just driving her to school like any other day and i, i woke up a few hours later in the hospital i had a seizure while i was driving' family: once in the parking lot, jacey drove the car around in circles until she attracted the attention of a parent above, mrs jones, jacey and two of her three younger siblings are pictured posing at their home  father: mrs jones was rushed to hospital, where she awoke a few hours later to hear of jacey's heroics her husband, jeff (pictured with the hyundai), meanwhile, raced to the school, where he instantly spotted the car  incredible escape: te dark colored car had sustained only a smashed window and a torn off panel (pictured) in the incident it later emerged it had crashed into several mailboxes en route to the nearby elementary school  she added: 'i didn't really believe it my daughter was amazing she saved us that morning' jacey, who remains modest about her achievement, said she was 'really scared' when her mother suffered a seizure on westside saginaw road while her little sister was sat in the passenger seat the fourth grader said that because she is used to taking charge of her sister and two other younger siblings when her mother is busy   such as when she is cooking dinner   she just leaped into action it is unknown why mrs jones suffered the seizure award: now, jacey (pictured alongside two police officers) has been handed a distinguished citizens award by michigan state police for her actions, which mrs jones said likely saved her and her two daughters' lives 
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jacey jones, nine, was traveling with mother, samantha, and little sister . mother suddenly had a seizure and fell unconscious on a michigan road . fourth grader, who was sat in back of hyundai, clambered into the front . then grabbed wheel and drove car short distance to school parking lot . once there, she drove around in circles, attracting attention of a parent . now, jacey has been handed a police award for her 'life saving' actions 