I narrowly avoided tragedy on a Colorado highway. Meet the two hero cops who put their lives on the line

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Coach Deion Sanders, former NFL star, is the toast of college football with his heroic turnaround of the University of Colorado team. While he deserves all praise coming his way, there are two other local men, law enforcement officers with the Boulder Police Department, whom I wish to salute.  

Police officers are known to run to rather than from the sound of guns. On a recent trip to Boulder, I learned they’re equally willing to run to the sound of silence. This is dangerous when the quiet comes from a glitchy hybrid engine propelling a family down a busy highway.

Last month my wife, Devin, and I took our daughter, Hope, out west for her freshman year at the University of Colorado. Upon landing at Denver International Airport, we rented a minivan, stuffed it to the gills with dorm room necessities purchased at a nearby Target, and headed to campus.

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Our rental, with plans of its own, exercised discretion foreign to an owner of an old pickup truck like me. As insouciantly as a sophomore switches majors, my dashboard declared the

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