ERIE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Two road workers jumped onto a moving school bus carrying 31 young students and steered it safely to a stop after the driver apparently suffered a medical problem.
Aaron Pierce and Ken Lambert were returning from their shift patching potholes Wednesday when they saw the Monroe Public Schools bus swerving at about 5 to 10 mph. Lambert, a volunteer firefighter, had heard over his emergency radio that the bus driver had gone into diabetic shock.
Pierce hoisted himself through a window to steer the bus to a stop.
“There was lots of screaming, lots of crying,” he told The Monroe Evening News in a story published yesterday. “One little girl asked me, 'Are we going to die?' I had to hug her. She was crying her eyes out.”
Lambert entered through the emergency exit.
“I went to the back door. Luckily, it was an older-model bus and I could open the exit door,” Lambert said. He then led the children off the bus and tended to the driver. The students weren't injured.
Pierce said he's not a hero and was just doing his civic duty. “There was no way I wasn't going to get onto the bus,” he said.
