Detroit, United States.- A 13-year-old teenager prevented the school bus he was traveling in from having an accident after the driver passed out, local authorities reported Thursday.
Dillon Reeves “jumped out of his seat, dropped his backpack, ran to the front of the bus, grabbed the steering wheel and managed to stop” the bus in the middle of the road, said Robert Livernois, director of public schools for a state district. from Michigan.
The bus driver, who was taking home about sixty students from Carter College in the town of Warren, north of Detroit, on Wednesday, “lost consciousness” at the wheel, the day before said in a statement.
In a video released by the authorities, you can see how the driver faints and the student gets behind the wheel, hits the brake and manages to stop the bus despite the panic and amid the screams of frightened children.
So he yells at his classmates to call the rescue services “immediately”.
The driver was hospitalized and is in stable condition, according to CNN.
Dillon Reeves allowed “avert what could have been a very tragic accident,” City Councilman Jonathan Lafferty said on Facebook.
The student’s parents, Steve and Ireta Reeves, said at the press conference that their son is a “little hero.”
