Quick-thinking group of college students jump into Georgia river to save mom and her two young kids from drowning after crash

Five heroic University of Georgia sorority sisters recused a mother and her two sons from drowning after watching their car fall off a bridge.

Molly McCollum, Jane McArdle, Eleanor Cart, Clarke Jones and Kaitlyn lannace were road-tripping from Athens to Savannah on March 15 when they witnessed the crash.

The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sisters had been driving along Murray Hill Road in Burke County when they approached the Brier Creek bridge and saw mother-of-two Cori Craft lose control of her vehicle.

'In our peripheral vision, we just see this spark of white, a little cloud of dust and kind of like a big old crash,' McCollum told Good Morning America.

'That's when we decided to pull over, and that's when we saw the car in the water,' Jones said. 

Molly McCollum, Jane McArdle, Eleanor Cart, Clarke Jones and Kaitlyn lannace (all pictured) jumped into the water to save a mom and her two sons after their car fell of a bridge

Cori Craft had been driving with her two young sons when she accidentally veered off the road, falling 135 feet and submerged her car

Craft had been driving with her two young sons when she accidentally veered off the road, falling 135 feet submerging her car, reported WRDW.

'I was thinking, I'm like, "I don't even know where my phone is. I don't have my glasses. I don't know how I'm going to call for help,"' Craft said.

'Then I just heard them over on the bank, and they shouted [asking] if I was OK. And I'm like, "No, my kids are in the car."'

The group of college freshmen called 911 and jumped in cold water to help the family.

McArdle said, 'I think the mom was so frantic that, like, I don't know, I feel like I didn't have a choice but to help.' 

The sisters managed to open one of the car doors and lift Craft's eight-year-old son out of the vehicle, but her four-year-old son was still trapped and buckled into his car seat.

'Time is ticking. It had been like four to five minute, it was just, like, every second mattered,' McCollum said.

The group was able to lift the four-year-old out of the car, but he was unresponsive.

'We all together, like, just pulled him out of the vehicle and then, yeah, [he] was like fully unconscious and it was terrifying,' said McCollum.

lannace said, 'His lips [were] completely blue, like his eyes were closed. He was not breathing.'

The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sisters lifted Craft's eight-year-old son out of the vehicle, but her four-year-old son was still trapped and buckled into his car seat

Clarke Jones (pictured) used her experience as a lifeguard to administer CPR to the four-year-old boy

The group of college freshmen called 911 and jumped in cold water to help the family

The Burke County Sheriff's Department made the five women honorary deputies for their bravery

The group pulled the four-year-old (right) out of the vehicle and one sister, who had worked as a lifeguard, performed CPR and saved his life

Craft credits the women with saving their lives and said, 'Without them stopping, I would not have my youngest here'

Jones moved the boy to the side of the car, began administering CPR and got the boy breathing again.

'I was a lifeguard in high school for one summer, so I just remembered it from then,' Jones said. 

'We had no clue if he was going to survive at all. And so I'm like, "This is the one thing I know how to do that I can help. And so I'm just going to give it my best try."'

Craft said, 'Without them stopping, I would not have my youngest here because I know I would not have been able to get to him in time.'

The Burke County Sheriff's Department made the five women honorary deputies for their bravery.

'They quickly turned around, went to the crash site, and without hesitation jumped in the water and pulled the driver and two children out of the vehicle. The quick thinking and bravery of these women is absolutely admirable,' the sheriff's office said.