Husband sacrificed himself protecting pregnant wife from drunk Chevy driver who plowed into him on sidewalk while 6 times over the legal limit

A Utah antheral is headed to situation aft drunkenly mowing down and sidesplitting a father-to-be who "heroically" saved his wife conscionable weeks earlier she recovered retired she was pregnant.

Matthew Daines, 26, pushed his spouse retired of the mode of Travis McIntyre's Chevrolet Silverado arsenic it came barreling toward them portion they were walking connected a sidewalk successful Springville, according to a constabulary press release. McIntyre pleaded blameworthy successful May to automobile homicide portion driving nether the influence and was sentenced this week to 5 to 15 years successful prison.

"You can't ever hole this, you can't ever instrumentality it back," said 4th District Court Judge Denise Porter astatine McIntyre's sentencing, according to section NBC affiliate KSL.

"I'm not to a constituent wherever I tin adjacent inquire for forgiveness, I'm a agelong ways from adjacent forgiving myself, fto unsocial asking others to," McIntyre told the court. "From the bottommost of my heart, I'm truthful sorry."

Daines was reportedly walking down a thoroughfare successful Springville adjacent 40 East 400 South with his wife, Andrea, erstwhile McIntyre — who was driving a Chevrolet Silverado and pulling a trailer — "left the roadway" and came careening toward the couple.

"[Daines], walking adjacent to his wife, saw the motortruck driving toward the some of them, and heroically pushed his woman retired of the way," the Springville Police Department said successful a September 2025 property release. "His woman is harmless and unharmed acknowledgment to his heroic actions."

Officers arrived astatine the country astir 8:40 p.m. and instantly initiated lifesaving efforts until paramedics arrived. Daines was transported to a section infirmary but "succumbed to his immense injuries," according to police. An "odor of alcohol" was reported to beryllium coming from McIntyre aft the crash.

Police launched a DUI probe and McIntyre was recovered to beryllium much than six times implicit the ineligible bounds for alcohol. Cops arrested him for vehicular homicide, DUI, and respective different charges.

"Matthew Daines sealed his beingness with the last enactment of sacrifice to prevention his woman and kid from the defendant," Deputy Utah County Attorney Ryan McBride said astatine McIntyre's sentencing. "No condemnation this tribunal tin enforce volition alteration the information that Andrea and his girl … volition spell done beingness without him."

State matrimony records amusement that Daines and his wife, who is not being identified astatine the petition of constabulary and her family, received a matrimony licence successful July 2025, conscionable months earlier his death.

"I've prayed for a miss similar her to travel into my beingness for years now, and present she is yet here," Daines wrote successful a diary introduction that his begetter work astatine McIntyre's sentencing. "I privation to person a fantastic and agelong beingness with Andrea that leads into eternity," Daines wrote successful different entry. "I'm trying truthful hard to emotion her with each my heart."

Porter called McIntyre retired successful tribunal for not being "bothered to telephone an Uber" contempt having a past of driving drunk.

"There is simply a country afloat of radical sitting down you from astatine slightest 2 antithetic extended families that you person destroyed," Porter told McIntyre. "This antheral mislaid his beingness redeeming his woman and his unborn kid due to the fact that you couldn't beryllium bothered."