“13-Year-Old Hero Saves School Bus From Crashing After Driver Passes Out – Dillon Reeves’ Story”

He has been presented as a hero everywhere for two weeks, and for good reason, what Dillon Reeves, 13, did is, according to local firefighters, “unheard of”. It happened on April 27, in Warren, Michigan, USA. Dillon was driving home on the school bus, seated in the fourth row, when he noticed the vehicle suddenly zigzagging. So he glanced at the driver and realized she had passed out.

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We can see it very well on the images from the video surveillance cameras of the bus: the teenager gets up immediately, rushes towards the driver, grabs the steering wheel, redirects the trajectory of the school bus which was about to rush into an alley and succeeds to press the brake, until it comes to a complete and unhindered stop. In a few seconds, he therefore saved the lives of the 65 other students who were on board, but not of the driver, who was still unconscious. He therefore launches to the passengers: “Can someone call for help?“Except… no one answers him.

The other college students are all filming him with their cellphones and none agree to cut his video to make a call to the emergency room. This is what he says two weeks after the incident, giving his version to the CBS channel and to the magazine People. And he expresses all his surprise, his incomprehension at the attitude of others. “I told them ‘But if you can film, you can also call for help!’ It was crazy, I was frustrated, it was just about being mature and doing the right thing“, he pleads.

“Be attentive to others, always”

And that’s the whole point: if Dillon didn’t call the emergency services himself, it’s because unlike the 65 other college students who were on the bus that day, he doesn’t have a cell phone. Admittedly, for this kind of emergency, it’s annoying, but at the same time, it’s precisely what makes him alone saw what was happening. All the other students say so to the journalists who interviewed them: “I was on my phone”“I had my headphones on“I was playing with my laptop.. Dillon, he looked at the road, the landscape, his environment, the others, the driver, the trajectory. He was attentive, present in the present moment.

When asked how he was able to stop the bus, he modestly replies that he observes the driver maneuvering it every day. CQFD. Later, Dillon wants to be a firefighter, and concludes with simple advice: “Be attentive to others, always“, young or old, with or without a laptop.