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Heroic Teacher Grabs Wheel On Swerving Bus

by Pat Coate | April 06, 2008

Morris, Alabama, USA - An elementary school math teacher's quick thinking may have prevented a terrible bus accident from turning into an all-out tragedy when the driver of the bus passed out at the wheel while carrying 44 children on a field trip to Chattanooga's Tennessee Aquarium.

The teacher, Amy King, grabbed the steering wheel and tried to straighten the swerving bus, witnesses told The Birmingham News.

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