using brute strength to keep their car from rolling down a steep embankment.

"I don't know what made me do it,'' said Miss Gloria Daniels. "The car was rolling and I heard her screaming. I was just so scared I didn't know what else to do. If I'd gotten there a minute later, they would've been gone.'' Miss Daniels said she was on a postal run in the Loyal Hill, Devonshire area when the incident occurred Wednesday morning.

"As I was on my way I saw the car overtake me,'' the postal employee of five years said. "At my next stop, I parked my bike and saw the car parked there also. While I was at the bottom apartment, I heard all this screaming and just dropped the telephone book I had and went running.

Miss Daniels said by the time she reached the car, it had travelled about 100 feet down a hill.

"I saw the child in the car and saw that the car was rolling. I don't know why, but I ran right in front of the car. When I got there it bumped my legs, but I just placed my head down and used my arms to keep the car from moving off the hill. I knew with my power, I could keep it from going over right away.

"I was just screaming and screaming my lungs out because the car was pushing me off the hill as well. It seemed like forever.

"I'm pretty strong, but it's not as if I lift weights or something. If I was a skinny person, that car would've been gone.'' Miss Daniels said the car moved about 10 feet while she was pushing it. The three were eventually saved after a man who heard their screams jumped in the car and pulled the handbrake.

"If he had come any later, the car would've gone down the hill,'' she said.

"I couldn't have held it any longer.'' Miss Daniels said the unidentified woman later said she believed her son might have knocked the handbrake, which started the car rolling.

"I've never had to do anything like this,'' she said. "I was crying afterward and shaking so much, I can't even remember the woman's name. She just kept thanking me over and over again.'' Loyal Hill resident, Mrs. Enith Symons said she was hanging out her clothes at the top of the hill and saw the entire incident.

"I could never have made it down in time,'' she said. "I could hear (the woman in the car) screaming and screaming.

"If the postal worker hadn't come, they would've been dead. I know it. The car was actually pushing her backward. She's a solid woman and held it for a good 30 or 40 seconds until another guy came and helped her.'' Mrs. Simons said the woman, who is unable to drive, was left in the car by her husband while he was doing something in the area.

"(Miss Daniels) just kept crying after. She was so frightened.'' Yesterday, Miss Daniels said neighbours in the area sent her a bouquet of flowers. Although she was still shaken up and a bit sore from the experience, she said she would not hesitate to act if the situation arose again.

MIGHTY WOMAN -- Post woman Miss Gloria Daniels shows how she saved an unknown woman and her child from rolling down a steep embankment in a car on Wednesday. Miss Daniels spotted the screaming woman as she was delivering mail at Loyal Hill, Devonshire.