MI - 7th grader brings school bus to stop after driver loses consciousness

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Michigan seventh grader takes the wheel for ailing school bus driver

“The actions of the student who helped stop the bus made all the difference today, and I could not be prouder of his efforts,” the Warren Consolidated Schools superintendent said.

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A seventh grader in Michigan is being praised for helping to avert a possible crisis after his school bus driver fell asleep at the wheel and the boy brought the bus to a stop.

The student, who has not been publicly identified, sprung into action Wednesday afternoon during his ride home from Carter Middle School in Warren, a city 20 miles north of Detroit, according to a statement from Warren Consolidated Schools Superintendent Robert Livernois.

When the bus driver "became lightheaded and lost consciousness" while driving on Masonic Boulevard near Bunert Road, the student "saw the driver in distress, stepped to the front of the bus and helped bring it to a stop without incident," Livernois said...

 

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Video of the incident on the school bus: Warren middle school student who stopped bus after driver passed out hailed as a hero