TORONTO – A quick-thinking Massachusetts mother may have saved her children’s lives after she used herself as a human “speed bump” to stop her car rolling into traffic.
Mindy Tran was leaving her apartment when she backed her Honda into the garage, then buckled her twin toddlers into the back seat. She went to lock the front door of her apartment when she saw the car start rolling down the driveway.
“I had to use myself as a speed bump to slow it down enough for one of my neighbours to get in and completely stop the car,” Tran told Boston’s WCVB News.
The incident happened on March 6, just days after Tran moved in to the apartment.
“I was like, ‘What is going on?’ And I see my daughter sitting there in the backseat and of course my first instinct is, ‘I have to push the car back into the driveway,'” she said.
Tran’s neighbour was able to remove the children from the car while the mother remained pinned under the car.
“Firefighters responded to the apartment and they stabilized the car with wooden blocks and then used an airbag to lift the car off Tran,” John Marsh, Lawrence fire department chief told ABC News. “We’ve seen something like this before. It is an unfortunate accident and somehow her car wasn’t in gear.”
Tran suffered a shattered left knee and a dislocated leg in the incident.
“I don’t consider myself a hero,” she told ABC News. “I am just a mother.”
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