Laisrean
April 8th, 2008, 08:17 AM
Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23996450/)
CLEVELAND - Rolling downhill in a bus with his screaming classmates and no driver, a fast-acting 11-year-old jumped behind the wheel Monday and steered the bus into a pillar, stopping it from careening out of control.
Some children jumped out the side door and rolled into the street. The driver, Michael Weir, had stopped for fuel and was in the station's restroom when the bus started to roll with 27 children aboard.
Fifteen children suffered minor injuries and were treated at hospitals and released. The boy who stopped the bus likely saved the children from worse injuries, authorities said.
The article says it is illegal for bus driver's to leave the bus while kids are on board - which certainly makes sense - but what if they have to go to the restroom really bad, as this one did? :huh:
CLEVELAND - Rolling downhill in a bus with his screaming classmates and no driver, a fast-acting 11-year-old jumped behind the wheel Monday and steered the bus into a pillar, stopping it from careening out of control.
Some children jumped out the side door and rolled into the street. The driver, Michael Weir, had stopped for fuel and was in the station's restroom when the bus started to roll with 27 children aboard.
Fifteen children suffered minor injuries and were treated at hospitals and released. The boy who stopped the bus likely saved the children from worse injuries, authorities said.
The article says it is illegal for bus driver's to leave the bus while kids are on board - which certainly makes sense - but what if they have to go to the restroom really bad, as this one did? :huh: