LSU receiver Travin Dural helps rescue woman from overturned car

LSU Tigers wide receiver Travin Dural is known for his big play ability on the football field, but he just made his biggest play after saving a woman after a car accident.

LSU wide receiver Travin Dural helped rescue a woman after her vehicle was overturned in a ditch in late July.

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According to The Advocate, Dural and his cousin Randall Menard, who is a football player at Southern, drove past an overturned SUV around 10 p.m. on July 30 and turned around and helped free the female driver who was hanging upside down and unable to reach for the doors.

The vehicle was upside down in a six-foot deep ditch with the doors jammes and driver’s side door pressed up against the edge of the ditch.

Dural and Menard had to “muscle open” the rear passenger door to free the driver while they waited for emergency personnel to arrive on the scene.

“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.”

Thanks to Dural and Menard, there was a happy ending to this story and when the cops arrived on the scene they even took some pictures with the Tigers leading receiver.

“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.”

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