Relieved mom credits 3-year-old daughters Crocs for saving her foot after freak accident with lawnmower

A Tennessee mom has sworn to buy Crocs for her children for the rest of their lives after she credited the popular foam slides for saving her 3-year-old daughter’s foot — and maybe her life — after a freak accident with a lawnmower.Alison Dorton, 33, said her youngest daughter, Sophia, was frolicking in her backyard while her father was mowing the lawn on May 7 when out of nowhere the little girl tripped and fell, according to a TikTok video she recorded and reporting by People.Sophia’s foot got caught in the self-propelled mower before her dad sprinted to his daughter’s side and called 911.“Freak accidents happen, you guys, they happen,” Dorton said in an emotional video.Luckily, her daughter’s Croc got lodged in the blades, grinding them to a halt, Dorton explained, saving her daughter’s foot and, her relieved mother added, possibly her life. “Had she not had those Crocs on, she probably would’ve lost her foot,” the emotionally spent mom said.“It probably would have been so much worse.”The miracle shoe stopped the blades, but not before they left a nearly 3-inch gash in Sophia’s tiny heel. The blades missed the 3-year-old’s bones, her tendons and “all the important parts of the feet,” her mom said. “Hands down, I will forever buy them Crocs for the rest of their lives,” she said.Dorton held up the tiny shoe, her daughter’s favorite, as her voice wavered and tears streamed down her face in the TikTok clip.

“Her little tie-dye,” she said.“There’s not a mark on the Crocs.

They’re completely fine,” she added, aside from a little blood and grass stains. The freak accident happened on the morning of May 7.Dorton knew something was wrong when she kept receiving calls from her oldest son, Tripp, 15.  Eventually, her son sent a text that terrified her:  “Sophia got hurt.

It’s bad.”Dorton called her son and could hear her husband, Matthew, 43, talking to a 911 operator in the background.That’s when she...