A Michigan police officer has been deemed a hero after saving a baby’s life during a traffic stop. According to Fox News, Officer Brenden Fraser thought he was pulling over a reckless driver last week and ended up saving an 18-month-old baby who was choking.
In the footage, you can see Fraser was pulling someone over for reckless driving during rush hour traffic on Aug. 29 when he approached the Camaro and found a terrified mother in the passenger seat with a child in her lap. The speed limit was 45 mph but the driver was going about 75 or 80 mph, Fraser said when he spoke to the news outlet about the incident.
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As Fraser caught up to the Chevy Camaro for a traffic stop, the driver, a male, waved his arms and flagged him down, Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer wrote in a news release about the incident. The driver told Fraser his 18-month-old nephew wasn’t breathing. The baby was turning blue and his eyes were rolled to the back of his head. In the video, Fraser gets out of his police vehicle and rushes to the driver’s side of the Camaro. Once he realizes what’s going on, he reaches in and grabs the child. “I gave him a couple of back blows I don’t know if he had something botched in his throat or if he was choking on his spit I’m not sure but it felt like saliva or spit that came out,” the officer said.
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Other officers arrived on scene and took the child to a hospital about a mile away from the scene, the release said. He was out of the hospital by Thursday and back home with family.
“Officer Fraser’s actions on this traffic stop are nothing short of heroic,” Commissioner Dwyer wrote in the news release. “This incident shows that police work and traffic stops are not always about writing tickets or making arrests. In this case, what started as a traffic stop for speeding resulted in Officer Fraser saving a child’slife.” Fraser has been nominated for a life-saving award from the department, Dwyer said, calling the award “well-deserved.”