All American Hero: Eleven Year Old Takes Wheel of Runaway Schoolbus

And officials say if he hadn’t acted when he did, the students’ injuries would have been much worse:

Rolling downhill in a bus with his screaming classmates and no driver, a fast-acting 11-year-old jumped behind the wheel Monday and steered the bus into a pillar, stopping it from careening out of control.

The bus sits against a pillar it hit after an 11-year-old student took the wheel as it began to roll.

Some children jumped out the side door and rolled into the street. The driver, Michael Weir, had stopped for fuel and was in the station’s restroom when the bus started to roll with 27 children aboard.

Fifteen children suffered minor injuries and were treated at hospitals and released. The boy who stopped the bus likely saved the children from worse injuries, authorities said.

“This kid did some quick thinking,” said Larry Gray, a fire department spokesman.

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First thing I thought was, “Why is he stopping for gas when he is driving kids?” I guess that is not only unusual but illegal:

State law prohibits bus drivers from leaving their vehicles at any time when students are on board and drivers are not allowed to stop for gas during their route, said Scott Blake, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education.

Yet another headline that you will not see associated with homeschooling.