An Australian teenager has been rewarded for helping to stop a bus full of students heading towards a petrol station last week.
Izzy Miller sprang into action Nov. 22 after she noticed a bus parked outside a local high school in New South Wales “kind of rolled with no driver” behind the wheel, according to a Facebook post from the North Casino Mini Mart, which was nearly hit by the vehicle.
The 14-year-old told Australia’s ABC News that she quickly realized “there was no one behind the wheel” when the bus took off. Then she noticed the danger they were in.
“It went close to the gas tank and nobody did anything,” she recalled. “So I jumped up, went into action and pushed him away.”
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Miller “safely” steered the bus away from Mini Mart, as well as oncoming traffic, pedestrians and more than three parked cars, according to the company’s Facebook post.
The “real little hero” then managed to “safely stop” the bus and its passengers, the shop added.
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“I had a guy pumping gas at the time,” owner Erin Witton told ABC News. “If that bus had hit bowser it would have exploded at worst.”
Miller said she was first concerned about the fate of the children on the bus. “If I had not done anything about it, something very bad could have happened to the children,” she told the newspaper.
Witton has since thanked Miller “for her selflessness and quick thinking” during the terrifying event, which she believes “could have ended in disaster” had the teenager not come forward, according to the Mini Mart post.
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“I [truly] I believe Kevin Hogan MP must jump on this and bring this girl a well-deserved community award for bravery,” the post read.
“The entire team at North Casino Mini Mart is in debt and we are just super grateful for this lovely young lady.”
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