LSU receiver rescued trapped woman from overturned vehicle
LSU wide receiver Travin Dural rescued a woman who was trapped in an overturned vehicle.
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Tom Fornelli
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LSU wide receiver Travin Dural helped rescue a woman from an overturned vehicle in late July.
The Advocate tells the story of Dural's heroics, as he and his cousin Randall Menard -- also a wide receiver, though Menard plays at Southern -- came across an overturned SUV at around 10 p.m. local time on July 30. The SUV was in a ditch alongside the road; the doors were jammed, and the driver-side door against the side of the six-foot-deep ditch.
The driver was hanging upside down from her driver's seat and could not reach any of the other doors.
Dural and Menard were the first two on the scene and both had to pry open the rear passenger door. Once they did, they were able to pull the woman out of the vehicle unharmed.
"We had to muscle it open," said Dural.
Dural said he and Menard first noticed the overturned SUV when their car lights flashed across it. They then drove to a stop sign and turned around.
"It was a good thing we turned around," said Dural. "I'm glad we got a chance to help this lady out. There were no cars on the street. I don't know when the next time somebody was going to come by."
Police showed up to the scene shortly after Dural and Menard pulled the woman from the car, and a few of them recognized Dural and had pictures taken with him.
"It's something you normally don't see a young guy his age do," said St. Martin sheriff deputy Michael McQuade, who was one of the first officers on the scene. "Normal people would ride by and call. They wouldn't go above and beyond and stop and check. They actually got the person out of the vehicle."
