Passenger Grabs Wheel, Steers Bus To Safety After Driver Passes Out

A potentially dangerous situation on a Canadian bus trip was salvaged by a passenger Thursday, CBC News reported. The driver of an Ontario Northland bus going from Toronto to Sudbury passed out at the wheel, which prompted a woman to grab the wheel and steer the bus to safety until the situation could be resolved.

The driver, a man in his 60s, suffered some sort of “medical distress” while driving on Highway 401 and was temporarily incapacitated, the Toronto Star reported. It was then that passengers got his foot off the gas pedal before the woman commandeered the vehicle and steered it out of harm’s way. None of the 47 passengers on the bus were harmed. Passenger Laurie Gennings tweeted about her perspective of the incident:

According to paramedics, the bus driver was not in a life-threatening condition and a different driver eventually arrived to finish the vehicle’s route. The bus was also not harmed in any way. The Ontario Northland Twitter account expressed thanks to everyone involved for making sure everyone made it out in one piece.