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A Wisconsin teen is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a bus full of students when their driver passed out behind the wheel and veered into traffic.
Acie Holland III, 14, was riding home on the school bus in Glendale, Wisconsin, when he realized that the driver was not slowing down to turn onto his street - as she usually does.
'She likes to joke with us a lot, and I thought maybe she was fooling with us,' Acie said.
When Acie stood up to call out the driver, he noticed her head drop down to the steering wheel all of a sudden.
Then, the bus began drifting across the center line and into a lane of oncoming traffic, with 14 kids on board.
Acie Holland, 14, from Wisconsin is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a bus full of students when their driver passed out behind the wheel and veered into traffic
Acie, who is an eighth-grader at Glen Hills Middle School, bravely dashed to the front of the bus to take control of the steering wheel when he noticed the driver's head collapse
Some of the kids on the bus were as young as fourth-graders, the Washington Post reported.
Acie, who is an eighth-grader at Glen Hills Middle School, bravely dashed to the front of the bus to take control of the steering wheel.
'I checked to see if the driver was OK, and I yelled, but she was unconscious and didn't respond,' he said. 'So, I took the wheel and straightened out the bus, then I moved her foot off the gas pedal.'
The heroic 14-year-old then swerved the bus toward the curb and slammed on the breaks, which caused the bus to abruptly stop.
Acie later said he felt comfortable taking control of the bus because he was previously taught how to drive a tractor and frequently enjoys helping out at his dad's auto repair shop in Glendale.
'Everyone else was OK, and the other kids were frozen, just looking at me because it happened so fast,' Acie said.
'I told them all to call their parents, and I asked my
