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2 Teens Save Officer's Life

Houston police call them heroes. The officer they saved calls them angels. By any name, two Alvin High School cheerleaders are at the center of an amazing survival story where good luck and kind hearts prevented a tragedy, News2Houston reported Thursday.

Houston Police officer Chad Overton was involved in a devastating car accident. He believes that he was saved by angels, who just happen to be students.

"There were two bones that were broken and sticking out of the skin," Overton said.

"We feel like it's odd to be considered a hero, because we feel like we did just what any decent person should do," said Bekah Baker, a hero.

Overton had finished his shift on April 18 and was driving home to Iowa Colony. Two miles from his house, he fell asleep at the wheel and went into a ditch.

"I hit it and I went up in the air and it seemed like a million feet and the vehicle just began to flip end over end," Overton said.

After he crawled out of his truck, Overton tried to flag down help.

Four cars drove past the bleeding officer.

"After about the fourth car, I began to think that this was probably the end for me," Overton said.

Baker and Amanda Hardy were late for curfew that night and decided to take a back road to get home quickly.

"We saw a man waving really slowly, like, desperately, for help," Baker said.

"I don't know what made me go, but I just got out and my first thought was my first instinct," Hardy said.

The girls called 911 and stayed with the officer until medics arrived.

Doctors were able to save Overton's badly injured arm, as well as his life, because two girls were late for curfew.

"There are people on this earth who set out to help people. And I do believe that God calls them angels, and I believe these two people were angels for me that night," Overton said.

Both teenagers received commendations from the Houston Police Department.

But they said that they gained something even greater.

"I definitely believe in fate, and that I was meant to be there and so was Bekah," Hardy said.

The girls will also be honored by the American Red Cross for their heroics.

Baker said that she is also dreaming of a career in medicine.