A daring deputy described the amazing save she made while climbing into the vehicle of the driver who’d lost control behind the wheel.
The Macomb County sheriff’s deputy risked her safety on a busy stretch of Gratiot Avenue, and two cameras captured the stunt.
She said it was the only solution to a dangerous situation.
“As far as stopping that vehicle, I didn’t have any other way or other ideas,” said Macomb County Sheriff Nicole Miron.
Miron is a small person but big on guts and quick on decision-making.
The incident occurred on Thursday (Sept. 12) at 2:18 p.m., going southbound on Gratiot Avenue in Mount Clemens, when a silver GMC Sierra was driving erratically near Church Street.
Officials said they encountered the vehicle on southbound Gratiot Avenue near Remick Drive, where they activated their lights and sirens, but the 63-year-old man failed to stop as he was unresponsive.
The driver continued southbound at five miles per hour before deputies pulled alongside him, where they saw he was dazed and unable to comprehend the request, causing Miron and her partner Deputy Anthony Gross to pull alongside the truck, where she pulled a ninja Spider-Man move from her SUV stop the vehicle.
“So before that, I’m thinking of all the options that we have; I mean, there’s not many,” Miron said. “At that point, I let him know that I am going to go through the driver’s window, and that’s what I did. I jumped right over him.”
“I just thought that I got to get as close as I can to move over to his vehicle,” said Gross. “She had that idea, and I was going to trust her with it.”
“I’m thinking, ‘What’s going through their mind,’ but then I’m kind of going back and seeing they saw they had a problem, they came up with a plan, executed a plan, and it worked.”
Deputies said the driver eventually rolled down the window and briefly hit his brakes, allowing Miron, on the patrol vehicle’s passenger side, to exit the window and climb into the SUV, continuing down Gratiot Avenue.
Once Miron was inside the truck, she was able to stop the vehicle and call the driver’s family member to confirm his medical condition.
“I am a smaller person, so it worked out in my favor,” Miron said.
Since the heroic save, people have been asking for their autograph.
“People are asking for autograph’s which I think is really funny,” Miron said.
The 63-year-old man’s medical issue has been determined, and he did not want to talk to Local 4 about the incident.