Saturday, April 29, 2023

Following the driver's collapse, a student drives the school bus to safety

 A seventh-grade boy in Michigan, United States, rescued the day by guiding his fellow students to safety while a driver fell asleep behind the wheel of a school bus. According to security camera footage published by Warren Consolidated Schools, the bus driver lost consciousness and was unable to operate the vehicle, according to the BBC.

Shortly after she radioed that she was feeling dizzy, she passed out on the seat due to a medical emergency. The thirteen-year-old bus passenger, Dillon Reeves, raced across to the driver and grabbed the wheel, putting his foot on the brake. The teen then asks his classmates to call 911 so that the driver may be taken care of right away. Meanwhile, people on the road nearby came to the children's rescue during the incident and assisted them in getting off the bus. According to sources, the driver was later hospitalized. 



According to officials, a quick-thinking 13-year-old drove the school bus to safety when the driver lost consciousness, saving all sixty-six pupils at a Michigan school.

Dillon Reeves, a student at Carter Middle School in Warren, leaped up from his seat a few seats back and ran to the front before snatching the wheel. A video shows the bus driver informing authorities that she is feeling under the weather. The schoolboy is hailed as a hero by the community.

"We are incredibly proud of your bravery!" Jonathan Lafferty, a councilman for Warren, posted something on Facebook. According to Robert Livernois, the school's superintendent, the bus driver "became lightheaded and lost consciousness" on Wednesday as the students were traveling home from Carter Middle School. The bus driver can be seen communicating over the radio to officials that she is not feeling well and might need to pull over in the incident's video, which was made public on Thursday.

Students can be heard shouting as the bus begins to deviate from its lane shortly after the driver loses control of the steering wheel and collapses to the ground. According to Mr. Livernois, Dillon "stepped to the front of the bus and helped bring it to a stop" after observing the "driver in distress". following bus stop. Dillon yells for someone to dial "now" on the emergency line 911. The illness of the bus driver is still unknown's reason. She has no prior history of any other driving-related incidents. The first thing Dillon's father, Steve Reeves, said when the cops called was, "What the heck did he do?" According to local media, police responded, "No, your son is a hero." A 30-year-old town councilman

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