MOULTRIE, Ga. — The young victim of an accident in October was honored posthumously with an award for bravery by the South Georgia chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

MADD presented the award Friday to the mother of 10-year-old Noah Palmer, who is credited with pushing his younger brother in an attempt to get him out of the way of the oncoming car.

The award was intended to be presented at the annual MADD banquet on March 1, but the boys’ mother, Amanda Wolfe, was unable to attend. Instead, Gary Robinson, MADD South Georgia community action site leader, and Daniel Lindsay, assistant Moultrie police chief, gave it to her in an informal ceremony outside the Moultrie Police Department on Friday.

Noah and 6-year-old Dylan Wolfe were crossing Thigpen Trail near their house to get onto a stopped school bus Oct. 25. The sun had not yet risen at the time, shortly before 7 a.m. An oncoming Kia automobile did not stop for the bus and struck the two children, according to a Georgia State Patrol report at the time.

Amanda Wolfe said on Friday that the boys had nearly reached the front of the bus when they saw the driver was not their regular bus driver. Instead of continuing across the road, they turned back around, she said.

Wolfe said Dylan told her he heard Noah yell, “Look out!” and he was pushed to the side.

Noah was flown to a Macon hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that day. Dylan was kept overnight at a different hospital due to his injuries, but he was released the next day, Wolfe said.

Wolfe, who wept several times while accepting the award, said Dylan had slept with Noah since he’d been old enough to leave his crib. His brother’s absence was very hard on him, she said.

She said the community has reached out to provide what comfort it can.

“The amount of love everybody has shown my family — oh, man, I never knew that it even existed!” she said.

Monica Cutts, 25, of Tallahassee, Fla., was charged with vehicular homicide, two counts of serious injury by vehicle, passing school bus loading and unloading, and driving while license withdrawn.

Cutts remains in the Colquitt County Jail under a $100,000 property bond.

Despite the recognition by the MADD chapter, Cutts has not been accused of driving under the influence.