Car Slams Through Bank, Nearly Missing Mom, Toddler Son

A good Samaritan helped calm a toddler, his mother and bank employees after a car crashed into a bank

A good Samaritan was credited with helping pull a mother and her 2-year-old son from debris after a car slammed through a bank they were in.

The driver may have been under the influence of prescription medication when he crashed Tuesday into a wall of a Wells Fargo in the 100 block of West Foothill Boulevard in Rialto, police said.

Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt.

Shaken and suffering from bumps and bruises, Rosie Pasillas laid on the ground with her son, Timothy. He began to cry and that's when a good Samaritan ran over to help.

"Everyone was screaming, panicking and yelling," said Cesar Orozco, a former San Bernardino firefighter. "I grabbed the little boy and I checked him out real quick. And mom was just screaming. And I told her to calm down and the little boy was just frantic.

"I started to sing with him, just something you learn to sing at Sunday school."

The song, "Jesus Loves You," calmed Timothy down as they waited for paramedics and police interviewed the driver. No arrests were made Tuesday, pending results from a toxicology test, police said.

The driver told NBC4 he tried to stop, "but it wouldn't stop. I'm sorry. It was an accident."

Pasillas, meanwhile, thanked Orozco for calming everyone.

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