Hero boy stops runaway bus

PRAVEENA SOMASUNDARAM

Thirteen-year-old Dillon Reeves got up and grabbed the steering wheel of school bus carrying dozens of children when he saw the driver had fainted

A 13-YEAR-OLD American boy became a hero by managing to safely stop a school bus carrying dozens of children when the driver lost consciousness.

The drama unfolded in the northern state of Michigan, when a teenager named Dillon Reeves got up and grabbed the steering wheel when he saw the driver had fainted, and brought the vehicle to a halt in the middle of the road using the hand brake, school district superintendent Robert Livernois said.

The bus was carrying 70 pupils from Lois E Carter Middle School in the town of Warren when the driver lost consciousness, as seen in a video released by the authorities.

Children are heard screaming as Reeves takes control of the bus and yells out for someone to call the 911 emergency service number.

“Warren is very proud of our 7th Grade hero Dillon Reeves,” Warren city councillor Jonathan Lafferty wrote on Facebook.

“This young man jumped into action when his school bus driver experienced a medical emergency, bringing the bus to a stop and avoiding what could have been a very tragic accident,” he wrote.

Following the near-fatal accident, Dillon sat down with FOX2’s Charlie Langton to share what happened.

He was then honoured and received a mayoral proclamation from mayor Jim Fouts. | WASHINGTON

THE bus was carrying nearly 70 pupils from Lois E Carter Middle School in the town of Warren, Michigan, in the US, when the driver lost consciousness. | PXFUEL