A Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus driver is being lauded after she came to the aid of another motorist who had suffered a medical emergency while on the road.
According to CBS 58, the incident in question happened in Wauwatosa last fall, and the video was recently shared by MCTS. The MCTS driver, identified as Latanya Staten, was transporting several passengers during rush hour when she realized another vehicle was veering off its lane.
The vehicle then came to a stop after gently hitting a tree that was away from the street. After noticing what had occurred, Staten quickly hit the brakes of her bus before exiting and running in the direction of the car.
The female driver was said to be slumped in the car, but Staten remained with her until she was brought back to consciousness. The MCTS driver only made her way back to her bus when she was certain the female motorist was eventually going to receive the needed help.
Staten also provided an update of the woman’s condition to her passengers, telling them that she was out of the woods.
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“We’re all humans, really, and if we remember that we’re all humans and that there will come a time in our lives when we need someone to help us, we won’t want someone to stop and think about if they should help us or not,” Staten said.
The MCTS said that a passenger on Staten’s bus called 911 and told her that her actions likely saved the woman’s life, CBS 58 reported.
As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, an Ohio school bus driver was similarly hailed as a hero for saving 15 children from a burning school bus. On the morning of February 27, Dorian Pace, a school bus driver for the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District, heard a loud boom coming from underneath the bus while he was transporting students to Monticello Middle School.
He told Good Morning America, “I actually felt like the bus was about to blow up.”
“What was going through my mind was, ‘I can’t lose any kids.’ So I quickly got everybody off the bus. We all exited through the regular front door because the fire was coming from the right rear.”
Pace and all of the other students on the bus escaped unscathed.
