Even though everyone is calling him a hero, Sam Haynes remains humble and even shy, "all this hero talk on Facebook… That's unnecessary," he said to news cameras. "I don't feel like I'm a hero in any way, I was just reacting. I was doing what I hope anyone else would do."
It all started on a normal day on the highway. Haynes was cruising down the road, enjoying himself, when he suddenly noticed a white car ahead of him driving a bit erratically. He sped up a bit and saw that this car was truly out of control.
He pulled out his phone, began to record, hit the gas, and immediately acted out. As he began to speed up in order to catch up to the wild car, he feared it was already too late, the white car began to veer hard to the left, driving in the median, one further slip to the left and the resulting head on collision would certainly result in multiple deaths.
Luckily, the driver of the white car managed to pull a bit more to the right in an attempt to get back on the road. But by then Haynes pulled his vehicle ahead, slammed on the brakes, and used his car to keep the white car in place. There was no time for the police in this instance, people's lives were at risk then and there.
It turns out the frantic driver of the white car, Sandra Harris, was under the influence. And it also turns out that Haynes has had a bad experience with impaired drivers. His sister nearly died in a car wreck with one, so when he saw someone doing the same thing that nearly killed his sweet sister, he made sure to do everything in his power to stop her in her tracks.
Thankfully, no one was injured, and Harris will be facing criminal charges for putting others at risk. So even though Haynes likes to say he's not a hero, at the end of the day he put his own life on the line to do the right thing and save other people's lives.
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