‘A hero’: N.S. school bus driver’s split-second decision avoids major highway crash
Global News
A school bus driver in the Halifax area said he had to think quickly after a tractor-trailer fell off an overpass and nearly collided with his bus full of students last week.
A school bus driver in the Halifax area says he’s still processing a dangerously close call that occurred on a highway last week — as a tractor-trailer tipped over an overpass and came inches away from colliding with his bus full of students.
Terrie Brown, who’s been driving buses for nine years, said he was driving on Highway 102 near Lower Sackville, N.S., on Thursday afternoon after completing a pickup at a nearby elementary school in Bedford. As he was driving under an overpass, he saw a large truck crash into a guardrail and fall over another overpass ahead.
“I was as hard as I can get on the brakes,” he explained during an interview with Global News on Wednesday.
“For a few seconds, I wasn’t sure if I was going to even stop in time, if I’m being honest with you. It was pretty scary.”
There were 23 students on the bus at the time, Brown said.
Brown said he initially anticipated that the truck was going to stop once it collided with the guardrail. Instead, he said it took a “hard right” and collapsed onto the highway underneath. There were no major injuries as a result of the incident.
If a truck careening off an overpass and into oncoming traffic wasn’t enough, Brown added that the vehicle was also transporting large rocks.
“He had boulders, not just gravel,” he said, adding that some rocks flew off the back of the truck upon landing. Thankfully for the bus driver and students, the cargo went in the opposite direction.
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