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By The Survivors Club Staff
July 21, 2009
Swept away by a Canadian river, a toddler managed to float eight miles by clinging to his beloved red toy truck.
Demetrius Jones, three years old, was playing with a battery-powered truck near the Peace River when he was carried off by a current. A frantic search ensued and the boy was found two hours later floating atop his overturned toy Chevy Silverado.
Demetrius had traveled eight miles downstream, somehow navigating whirlpools and waters that run more than 10-feet deep.
His grandmother, Anita Neudorf, said that Demetrius wasn't fazed by the adventure and wanted to go back on the river on what he called his "boat."
"His trucks mean the world to him and I think that's what saved him," Neudorf told the Edmonton Sun. "He wasn't letting go of the truck for love or for money."
