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Sadik Hossain

‘They saved my life’: Mississippi bus driver blacks out on a four-lane highway. The 40 kids on board did something no adult told them to do

A Mississippi school bus driver blacked out during an asthma attack while driving on a four-lane highway, and the students on board stepped in to stop a crash. The driver, Leah Taylor, 46, was driving away from Hancock Middle School in Hancock County when the incident happened. There were about 40 kids on the bus at the time.

As Taylor reached for her medication, she suddenly lost consciousness behind the wheel, causing the bus to veer off course and begin swerving across the road. Panic quickly spread among the students as the vehicle drifted out of its lane and the situation turned dangerous in seconds. Sitting directly behind her, 12-year-old sixth grader Jackson Casnave immediately realised something was wrong. 

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