Police: Troopers jump out of drunk driver’s path

Published March 11, 2011 5:00am ET



Two Maryland State Police troopers leaped from the path of a speeding drunken driver while stopping to help a disabled vehicle on Interstate 95 in Prince George’s County, police said.

State police said Trooper First Class Elix Gerber and Trooper Thaddeus Allen — who had just graduated from the police academy last Friday — stopped for a disabled vehicle in a northbound lane of I-95 near Van Dusen Road in Laurel shortly before 1 a.m.

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