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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Hero Australian schoolgirl, 14, steers runaway bus to avoid petrol station collision

A schoolgirl has been hailed a hero after she prevented a runaway school bus full of pupils from crashing into a petrol station in Australia.

Isabelle Miller, 14, ran to the steering wheel and directed the bus, after it began rolling towards a fuel station while parked outside her secondary school in the town of Casino, New South Wales.

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