Young and Bold

This happened in Cleveland.

When the school bus driver fueled the bus and went inside the convenience store, the bus started to roll. One young man had the presence of mind to get behind the wheel and try to pull the emergency brake. The brake failed. The boy steered the bus down a dead-end street into an industrial area and ended up crashing it into a concrete pillar on the bridge for I-90. Although there were injuries, all of them were minor. Had the bus not stopped at that point it probably would have continued gaining speed with tragic results.

Our young hero is 11 years old. Good work and good thinking on his part! Not so much on the driver's part. Apparently a bus driver is never supposed to leave the bus unattended nor stop to get fuel when there are passengers. Maybe he really had to go to the bathroom and the getting fuel seemed like a good excuse? He was in the bathroom when the bus started rolling.

The article originally appeared here.