Michigan boy hailed as hero for preventing bus crash after driver fainted

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Michigan boy hailed as hero for preventing bus crash after driver fainted
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Seventh-grader Dillon Reeves of Carter middle school in Warren, north of Detroit, took steering wheel and brought vehicle to safety

is heaping praise on to a seventh-grader who regained control of a school bus whose driver lost consciousness and was on the verge of crashing, according to officials.

Dillon Reeves was on a bus taking him as well as other students home from a day of classes at Carter middle school in Warren, just north of Detroit, when the driver began to feel dizzy and passed out, saidReeves went to the front of the bus after he noticed the driver had fallen, stepped on the brakes and steered away from traffic on the road to bring the vehicle to a stop, according to video obtained byAfter Reeves told his schoolmates to call for help, emergency responders – along with the...

Local public school district superintendent Robert Livernois added: “The student who helped stop the bus made all the difference, and I could not be prouder of his efforts.” Of the roughly 111 people who are killed each year in school bus-related accidents in the US, and the much larger number who are injured, the majority are inside another car, or are pedestrians or bicyclists, according to

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