Boston Police Share Thank-You Letter From Mother
BOSTON (CBS) -- The Boston Police Department released a letter it received Monday from a thankful mother after an off-duty lieutenant helped her and her daughter in April.
In the letter, posted on bpdnews.com and on the department's Facebook page, the mother describes panicking when her daughter had a coughing fit in the back seat of her car. The mother said in the note that she was driving on Route 3 between Hingham to Roslindale.
"Luckily, we were only standing on the highway for about a minute when a car pulled over in front of mine," the letter reads. "A man approached and asked if we were ok. I told him I wasn't sure. He asked if I wanted him to call 911. I couldn't make a decision, so he called 911 for me. The man and his wife took me in the back of their SUV and calmed down both me and my daughter. The wife told me her husband is a Boston police lieutenant."
Once the ambulance arrived, the mother writes, the couple offered to drive her car to South Shore Hospital so that she could ride with her daughter. She wrote that the couple had been on their way to a party.
"I handed my car keys to a total stranger, and she brought my car to the hospital," the note reads. "This is one amazing couple."
The first-time mother wrote she is still not sure whether or not she was overreacting, but that the situation was nevertheless the scariest she had ever experienced.
"I am so thankful, and I want people to know there are amazing, selfless police officers in Boston," she wrote. "I am proud to call myself a Boston resident knowing he is the type of police officer we have in our city."
