Florida state trooper drove into a head on collision with a drunk driver to save lives HotAir

Trooper Toni Schuck has been with the force for 26 years and that day she was stationed on one of the closed on-ramps to the bridge. That morning she heard over the radio that an apparent drunk driver had gone through a barricade and was headed toward the on ramp.

Sgt Carter from the Tampa district, he came past me and I saw him, Schuck said at a press conference. She continued, I said, okay, he s in momentum, he s moving, I m going to follow him but I m going to stay back because I knew I was the last one. I knew there was nobody else behind me.

Trooper Schuck expected the car would be stopped before it got her as there was another checkpoint it would have to go through. And then she heard on the radio the driver had indeed blown through that checkpoint and wasn t stopping. Then up ahead she saw the speeding driver go past Sgt. Carter and keep accelerating. On instinct, she placed her SUV in the middle of the road. Here s what happened:

via hotair.com