A toddler in Utah is now safe and sound with his mother after the 3-year-old made a "good call.”
The boy, named Aiden, was found by police 20 minutes after his mother’s car was stolen and abandoned, partly because he knew how to use his mother’s cellphone, NBC affiliate KSL of Salt Lake City reported.
Aiden’s mother, Elizabeth Barrios, left her 2012 Mazda 3 running while dropping off Aiden’s infant brother at an Ogden day care facility just before 7 a.m. when stranger dashed away with the vehicle, KSL reported.
"My car was driving away with my 3-year-old inside of it," she said to KSL. "It just scared me so much."
However, the police called the mother's cellphone left behind in the car and the toddler answered it, she said to KSL. Aiden honked the horn at the request of an officer after the person who stole the car took valuables inside of it and left, KSL reported.
The horn alerted police searching for Aiden where he was, KSL reported.
Barrios told KSL that her son was able to get the instructions because he not only knew how to answer her cellphone, but he also knew her password.
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"I'm so glad we found him as fast as we did," Barrios said to KSL. "Just be very careful. Even if you don't think it can happen to you, it can. It can."
