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Jo Adrian P. del Mundo (16) Submitted: October 20, 2014
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The following article is about a woman who risked her body and life to save her two
daughters. It is a heroic act which, at least for me, serves as a testament to being faithful to
ones duty; in this case, it was faithfulness to ones duty of being a mother. Like what she
said at the end of the article, she was only doing her job as a mother, not considering herself
as a hero for risking her life, and that is exactly what makes her so heroic.
Mom Lies Down as Speed Bump to
Save Daughters in Rolling Car
By Michael Howard
@MichaelHowardTV
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Mar 18, 2014 2:07pm
A Lawrence, Mass., woman says she saved the lives of her twin daughters after
she used herself as a speed bump to stop her car from rolling into traffic.
Mindy Tran, 22, says she had been living in a shelter with twin daughters
Saleen and Sydney, and that they had recently moved into their new apartment
just days before the incident.
It felt like I was starting a new life, she told ABC News today from the
hospital where she is recovering from a broken leg and dislocated shoulder and
hip. The girls had started at daycare and we just moved in. It seems like when
things are going too well, something bad will happen.
Tran says she is lucky to be alive after she lay on the ground behind her Honda
Accord to stop it from rolling into the street with her kids still inside. I laid
down horizontally, using my body as a speed bump to stop the car, she said.

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Her 2-year-old daughters were buckled in the back seat when the car started
rolling. A neighbor also came to help.
My neighbor jumped in and he asked what I wanted them to do, she said. I
said make sure my daughters got out of the car safely.
Her neighbor was able to get the girls out and they were uninjured, she added.
My daughters and I are all right and keeping our heads up, she said. Im
lucky to be alive.
There was no damage to the car, Lawrence Fire Department Chief John Marsh
said. Firefighters responded to the apartment and they stabilized the car with
wooden blocks and then used an airbag to lift the car off Tran, he said, adding
that she was eventually airlifted to a Boston-area hospital.
Weve seen something like this before, he said. It is an unfortunate accident
and somehow her car wasnt in gear.
Tran says she cannot walk and will have surgery in the coming days, along with
physical therapy. I crushed my knee, injured my hips and dislocated a
shoulder, she said.
Trans twin girls will celebrate their birthday April 13. She says the medical
facility at which she is staying has offered to let them have a party there so she
can be with them.
Its not going to be the same for them celebrating a birthday here at the
hospital, she said, but as a mother I want to see them.
Tran says she could be in the hospital for a few weeks.
I dont consider myself a hero, she said. I am just a mother.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/03/mom-lies-down-as-speed-
bump-to-save-daughters-in-rolling-car/