Mindy Tran used body as ‘speed bump’ to save twins from rolling car

By Kimberly Bookman, WCVB

LAWRENCE, Mass. —A Lawrence mother says her instincts just kicked in when she used her body to stop her rolling car that had her two young children inside.

Mindy Tran, 22, from Lawrence, Mass., used her body as a “speed bump” to save her twin daughters stuck in her runaway car. Tran’s left knee was crushed on impact and her right leg was dislocated from her hip. Image taken from video by WCVB.

Mindy Tran’s left knee was crushed and her right leg dislocated from her hip. The 22-year-old was injured while trying to save her twin toddlers from the rolling car.

“I had to use myself as a speed bump to slow it down enough for one of my neighbors to get in and completely stop the car,” Tran said.

The incident happened on March 6, just days after signing a lease at her new Lawrence apartment.

She backed her Honda into the garage, put it in park and had her 2-year-old twins buckled in the back seat when she said she got out to lock her front door. She saw the car start moving.

“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.

Read the full story by Kimberly Bookman from WCVB.