Student Zheng Yong-chuan saves 25 students after bus driver faints at wheel

At 7.32am on the 13th January, 40-year-old Tainan’s Hsin Rong High School bus driver Mr. Zheng was sitting at traffic lights preparing to leave Route 129 in the direction of Provincial Highway No.1. However, with 25 students onboard, just as the lights turned green, the driver suddenly fainted at the wheel, his body slumping backwards and foot pressing down on the accelerator pedal. As the bus began hurtling forward, quick-thinking student Zheng Yong-chuan raced to take control of the steering wheel, scraping past a telegraph pole and narrowly avoiding collision with a bridge over Chia-Nan Canal, as well as dodging a motorcycle and two cars. In order to avoid colliding with a further approaching telegraph pole and residential homes, Zheng Yong-chuan steered the bus off the road in the direction of a vacant lot he happened to catch sight of.

The bus finally came to rest after careering through the vacant lot and crashing 60 cm down into a farmer’s field. Zheng Yong-chuan immediately instructed classmates to get off the bus and call 119, while simultaneously attempting to revive the driver. With the aid of students and local residents the driver was taken from the bus and thankfully any danger from the perilous 80 meter-30 second journey was avoided. 

Student Zheng Yong-chuan saves 25 students after bus driver faints at wheel 

URL:http://www.peopo.org/news/265559 

(以下是中文對照)
駕駛昏倒新榮中學校車失控學生鄭詠釧穩住方向盤救了25人

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1月13日早上7點32分，台南市新榮中學校車由40多歲鄭姓司機駕駛，當時車上有24名學生，當紅燈轉綠燈，正要由南129線起步左轉省道台一線時，司機卻突然昏倒仰坐在座位上，因為腳踩住油門，校車加快速度往前衝，學生鄭詠釧見狀馬上穩住方向盤，沿路擦撞電線桿、嘉南大圳橋墩、閃過一輛對向行駛中的機車與四輛轎車，在即將撞上民宅和電線桿前，看見右方有空地，馬上向右轉動方向盤，讓校車駛出馬路，衝入深60公分農田才停住。鄭詠釧立即請同學下車打119，同時極力叫醒司機，在同學和附近居民協助下將司機救出車外，歷程約80公尺、30秒鐘奇蹟式化險為夷。

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