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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 04:39 PM Oct 2021

Boys jump into action to save bus driver who experienced medical emergency

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — Two middle school students jumped into action to save the life of their bus driver who experienced a medical emergency while on the road in Georgia. Though the driver couldn’t breathe, WSB reports she was able to navigate the bus full of kids to the side of the road. That’s when Conner Doss and Kane Daugherty realized something was wrong.

"And I come up and I see sixth graders yelling and I come out, come in the aisle, and then I looked down and Miss Julie's face is just like bright red and like shaking," said Doss. "I hear her say, ‘Hey, somebody help.’ And so, I run up like here and she's over here. She's shaking like really bad," said Daugherty. With little time to think, the boys did what they could to help.

"So, I picked up the microphone (dispatch radio). I said, ‘Somebody help,’ like, ‘Somebody help. Our bus driver feels really dizzy.’ And then somebody called her phone. It was right here," said Daugherty. A dispatcher was on the line and helped Cane to set the vehicle’s emergency brake, flashing lights, and emergency stop arm. The dispatcher called 911.

The kids did what they could to flag down people to help. "And we opened up a window and we were like waving them down and everything, like telling them to get over here, like to help," said Daugherty.

They got the attention of a pastor who happened to be driving by.
He hopped on and led the kids in prayer until the ambulance arrived.

WSB reports that the driver is recovering and hasn't yet returned back to work. It remains unclear what the medical emergency was.

https://www.10news.com/news/national/boys-jump-into-action-to-save-bus-driver-who-experienced-medical-emergency

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Boys jump into action to save bus driver who experienced medical emergency (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 OP
Hopped out and led the kids in prayer. bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #1
Opportunist. Should be ashamed. He should have been on the phone with police and kept the kids well lindysalsagal Oct 2021 #2
exactly, he was in a position to relay important information. bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #4
That Delphinus Oct 2021 #3
Sickens me. n/t SheilaAnn Oct 2021 #5
Shows exactly how useless pastors are UpInArms Oct 2021 #6
Yup JI7 Oct 2021 #8
I agree Skittles Oct 2021 #12
Prayers, not CPR. That's the south. viva la Oct 2021 #7
The pastor apparently arrived after Dispatch called 911 & told the kids how to secure the bus... Hekate Oct 2021 #9
Agree Beaverhausen Oct 2021 #11
there are ways to calm kids down without using religion Skittles Oct 2021 #13
Ommmm. Breathe into your navels, children. Hekate Oct 2021 #14
yeah.......whatever Skittles Oct 2021 #15
I would prefer an AED Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2021 #10

bottomofthehill

(8,329 posts)
1. Hopped out and led the kids in prayer.
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 04:49 PM
Oct 2021

and that is the problem. The one ADULT who could actually help, instead, chose to lead a prayer......

lindysalsagal

(20,684 posts)
2. Opportunist. Should be ashamed. He should have been on the phone with police and kept the kids well
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 05:12 PM
Oct 2021

away from danger, and taken down names, for school follow-up to parents.

bottomofthehill

(8,329 posts)
4. exactly, he was in a position to relay important information.
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 05:15 PM
Oct 2021

If others are there and he wants to pray, so be it, but .....please.

Hekate

(90,683 posts)
9. The pastor apparently arrived after Dispatch called 911 & told the kids how to secure the bus...
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 07:27 PM
Oct 2021

I believe I read that sequence correctly. CPR was apparently not called for.

He then led the bus full of kids in a calming group activity.

So why the incredible negative comments against the first adult in the scene? He wasn’t insisting on, I dunno, baptizing the little sinners or anything. He was using his personal skill-set to calm them down, the way I see it.

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