Pregnant woman called "hero" after chasing down drunk driver

by Bethany Sanders (Subscribe to Bethany Sanders's posts) Jun 25th 2008 1:00PM

Categories: Health & Safety, In The News, Weird But True, Alcohol & Drugs

When you're a parent, the instinct to protect your child is sometimes overwhelming. When my husband stumbled on our concrete porch steps with our older daughter, then just an infant, they both fell... hard. He ended up with scrapes and bruises. She was completely unharmed and even giggled when they landed. I don't know how he did it, but in those short seconds he managed to turn his body just right to keep her safe, even if it meant that he took the brunt of the fall.

Maybe it was her pregnancy that put Amanda Bourque's "mama bear" instincts into overdrive. When a drunk driver narrowly missed hitting her car, Bourque decided that she needed to do something before someone got hurt. So she followed the weaving driver into a convenience store parking lot, where he smashed into a wall and another car before Bourque finally cornered him with her own vehicle.

Bourque's being called a hero and will be nominated for a public service award. Though many people would have called 911 in the same situation, to actually pin down the driver until help arrived definitely took some guts.

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Baron 6-25-2008 @ 4:57PM

While that is all well and good, as I am all for people taking action, I do hope that she didn't have her child (children?) in the car with her. You never know what someone, especially while under any type of influence, might do in the situation. It would be one thing to follow them, get their plate number, call 911, and continue following them (at a distance) until the police arrived, but like I said, when you have others with you and you don't know what that person may do, I don't recommend it.

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