Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, some are just barely out of elementary school. Such is the case for a Michigan Grade 7 student, Dillon Reeves, who is being hailed a hero for bringing his school bus to a safe stop after the driver lost consciousness.
Reeves, a student at Lois E. Carter Middle School in Warren, Mich., was riding home from school on the bus Wednesday afternoon when he noticed the bus begin to veer into oncoming traffic. “Someone call 911.
Now!” he can be heard shouting in a surveillance video that was captured from above the driver’s head. Moments before, the driver was seen fanning herself with a baseball cap and alerting the transportation office that she was feeling unwell and needed to pull over.
Seconds later, Reeves, who was seated five rows back, “jumped up from his seat, threw his backpack down, ran to the front of the bus, grabbed the steering wheel and brought the bus to a stop in the middle of the road,” said Robert D.