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A woman driving behind the car saw it swerving and called 911 while following it. Miranda said she fell to her knees and wailed after getting out of the car. She then called her mother and grandmother. "She said, 'Mom, we were in an accident and Pop-pop is dead,'" said Miranda's mother, Stephanie Bowman. "I keep thinking to myself,
'I don't know if I could have watched that happen to him and reacted the way she did.'" Stephanie Bowman said the family is in shock from all that happened. Paul Parker was an active man who played fast-pitch baseball and started go-karting in his 60s. It was the first time Miranda watched her grandfather go-kart; she had long asked him to take her to the track. "I'm very grateful to have my daughter be OK, but losing my father at the same time, I'm just numb from the two emotions battling each other out," Stephanie Bowman said. Miranda said she knew how to react in an emergency situation because her father is an EMT. She also said she watches a lot of "Law and Order" on television and thought about what might happen on the show. And she always watches what people do while driving a car, so she knew to head for the brake. Miranda said she wants to be a sign language interpreter when she is an adult.
"I'm very amazed by her, very impressed by her," Stephanie Bowman said. "Where she got it from, God only knows. He was her angel that day."
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