LSU receiver Travin Dural left his house at about 10 p.m. CT on July 30, enjoying one of his last free nights before football camp started.
The Tigers’ No. 1 pass-catcher then noticed an overturned Nissan SUV in a ditch off Zin Zin Road in Breaux Bridge, La. Rather than call the police, Dural and cousin Randall Menard, a receiver at Southern University, stopped to find a woman trapped in the vehicle.
According to The Baton Rogue Advocate, the driver’s side door got lodged against the wall of the ditch. So Dural and Menard pried open the rear passenger door and rescued the uninjured woman from the vehicle.
“He used his strength,” St. Martin Sheriff deputy Michael McQuade said, according to The Advocate.
The police arrived, and some recognized Dural and requested to pose for photos with the LSU wideout. Dural, a premier deep threat, claims 44 catches for 903 yards and 9 touchdowns as a college receiver. He put that athleticism to use that night in Louisiana.
“It’s something you normally don’t see a young guy his age do. 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.”
The road doesn’t get much traffic, and the woman had been stuck upside down in her wrecked car for about 5 minutes, according to the report.
“It was a good thing we turned around. I’m glad we got a chance to help this lady out,” Dural said. “There were no cars on the street. I don’t know when the next time somebody was going to come by.”
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
