Mississippi Students Prevent Bus Crash After Driver's Asthma Attack

Quick-thinking middle school students in Mississippi prevented a school bus crash on Wednesday after their driver suffered an asthma attack and lost consciousness on a four-lane highway in Hancock County.

The bus, carrying about 40 students, had just departed from Hancock Middle School in the community of Kiln when 46-year-old driver Leah Taylor reached for her medication but blacked out. The vehicle began to swerve, prompting immediate action from the passengers seated nearby.

Sixth-grader Jackson Casnave, 12, who was directly behind the driver, jumped forward to grab the steering wheel. "I didn’t have time to process my emotions," Casnave said. "I just wanted to make sure that nobody got hurt." He directed the bus toward the median while instructing others to seek help.

At the same time, another sixth-grader, 12-year-old Darrius Clark, applied the brakes to slow the accelerating vehicle. Clark later described the forceful stop: "It about threw me out the windshield." Working together, Casnave and Clark managed to guide the bus onto the median and shift it into park, averting a collision.

From the back of the bus, Darrius's 13-year-old sister, eighth-grader Kayleigh Clark, rushed...