Five-Year-Old Rocky Lyons, Son of the Jets' Star, Thought He Could Save His Mom's Life and He Did They were in a horrific car accident at night, rolling off the side of a cliff. With her 4 foot, 60-lb. son pushing from behind, they crawled up together. Kelly keeps thinking she couldn't do it; it hurt so badly. Rocky kept reminding her about the locomotive that climbed a mountain in the story The Little Engine That Could, repeating the engine's refrain, 'I think I can, I think I can ' adding '"You can do it, you can do it.'