Students take control of bus after driver has medical episode

This morning, five middle schoolers stopping a runaway school bus after their driver passes out are being hailed as heroes.

I had a medical emergency and the students stepped up.

45 year old Leah Taylor was driving her usual route through Hancock County, Mississippi Wednesday afternoon with a bus full of students when she had an asthma attack and lost consciousness.

She kind of sort of like fell over like flopped over and everyone started like standing up here in the school bus surveillance video.

You can see five students jumping into action working as a team to stop the the bus and save the bus driver.

I saw that the bus was veering off to the side, then I grabbed the wheel.

It's sixth grader Darius Clark who hits the brakes.

And the bus started rolling forward.It started gaining speed, so whenever I clicked the brakes, it about threw me out the windshield.

Eighth grader Kaylee Clark called 911, while classmate Destiny Cornelius administered medicine to Taylor.

I saw her medication in her hand and I saw like her reaching for it.I knew that's what she needed.

Watch all five working together until first responders arrive.

I can't thank these students enough for saving everybody's life because it could have turned out so much worse.

They are wonderful and fantastic job, right?Taylor says she was able to thank each child personally the very next day when she picked them up.

on the bus the next day.Yes, the very next day.Yeah.

But did you see?No.See, don't come together like that.

Yeah.Yeah.And we have to thank our abc station there on the coast that helped W. L. O. X. T. V. 13.Your news for South Mississippi.That was your first.That was my second job.

Second.I was Hattiesburg.Then W. L. O. X. T. V. 13.Yeah, but they were, they really helped us with that.Yeah, they did.

One more time.

All right, there we go.Thank you, Robin.