“Hero” TX Junior High Students Take Control Of Sealy School Bus After Driver Passes Out, Dies

SEALY, TX. (THECOUNT) – A group of Southeast Texas school students are being hailed heros after they took control of a moving school when the driver experienced a fatal medical episode.

The Sealy school district said Friday, three students took control of the large, moving bus, after the driver, Gerald Gardner, lost consciousness.

The students were able to maneuver the bus to a full stop.

The Sealy school district said Friday that bus driver Gerald Gardner had just picked up students at a junior high school and was leaving the campus when he lost consciousness. The three students took the wheel and safely parked the bus. source

First responders arrived on-scene and performed CPR on Gardner after removing him from driver’s seat of the bus.

Gardner was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

A cause of death was not immediately known.

In a statement, the school district says it was “extremely grateful” for Gardner’s years of service.

Sealy is a city in Austin County in southeastern Texas, United States, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The population was 6,019 at the 2010 census. Sealy is located 49 miles west of the downtown Houston area, according to Wikipedia.