Car Wash for Pregnant Woman Hit by Car

A woman saves her son's life, and gets hit by a car in the process. But her heroism is not going unnoticed -- friends and family hosted a car wash Saturday to raise funds for Jennifer Salinas, who risked her own life so her young son could live.

"I think it was amazing what she did... she saved her baby's life," says Jennifer's sister Dominque.

It happened near 19th Ave and Peoria about a week ago. Salinas and her family had just eaten dinner at a Chinese restaurant, and Salinas put her son Cruz in a stroller. But he got out and ran into the street.

Without hesitating Salinas ran out to the street grabbed her son Cruz and tossed him to the curb, then she was hit by a car. Salinas was 7 and a half months pregnant at the time.

She delivered the baby boy by C-section shortly after arriving at the hospital.

"She's laying there in her hospital bed with her pins coming out of her leg and road rash all over and she said, 'I'm blessed, I have no complaints, I'm alive, my kids are safe, my baby's fine and no bitterness at all,'" says Craig Bishop.

Salinas is recovering in the hospital and will have to undergo rehabilitation for about a month.