A group of Mississippi middle schoolers banded together to stop a runaway school bus and prevent a disastrous crash.
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During the after-school route, Leah Thomas, 46, suffered an asthma attack and lost control of the bus while driving down a four-lane highway. Thomas attempted to take her medication, but blacked out before doing so.
Seeing Thomas hunched over and struggling to breathe, one brave student leaped into action, preventing a potentially fatal collision.
Sixth grader Jackson Casnave, 12, who was sitting behind the driver, noticed the bus begin to swerve. Without hesitation, he grabbed hold of the steering wheel and called on his fellow students for assistance.
"I didn't have time to process my emotions," he told the AP. "I just wanted to make sure that nobody got hurt."
Darrius Clark, 12, pumped the brakes, and the students steered the bus to a median before bringing it to a full stop.
"The bus started rolling forward. It started like, gaining speed, so when I clicked the brakes, it about threw me out the windshield,"
