Alright, ngl, “using her powers of deduction” made me laugh. Good article, thanks for posting.
Quick thinking teenage girl saves runaway bus from crashing into New South Wales petrol station
Submitted 11 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yeah I thought it was a nice human interest story. The kind of thing we don’t get enough of on here.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you think that guy holding onto the mirror thought “it’s working”? He kept holding on even as it turned and slowed down
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Izzy is immune to the bystander effect. It seems to have taken her ~1s to take action, which is remarkable.
Marsupial@quokk.au 11 months ago
This is why we don’t put Otto in charge of the school bus.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or Dereks guys Rufus, Brint and Meekus in charge of a gas station:
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Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 11 months ago
What amazing initiative and sharp problem solving skills! We need this girl coordinating our response to the climate crises
sqgl@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Article doesn’t say she steered it. Did the driver push it away, aided by the driveway?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A 14-year-old girl has saved a school bus from a runaway disaster at Casino in New South Wales’ north.
The bus, loaded with about 20 school students, was sitting on the corner of Frederick Street and Queensland Road.
But when the bus started moving towards a petrol bowser and mini-mart, year 9 Casino High School student Izzy Miller noticed the driver’s seat was empty.
She jumped into the driver’s seat and, using her powers of deduction, quickly pressed one of the pedals to test if it was the brake.
CCTV footage from the Casino mini-mart captured the frightening moments on camera.
“The [school] principal said that if Izzy hadn’t acted the way she did that day, he would have been making some very different phone calls,” she said.
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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Shorter TLDR: Driver outside bus, no report of why, or why it was not secured. Girl on bus steers it away and hits brake while driver panics and tries to stop bus by holding on to and being dragged by the mirror.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yeah the lack of mention about why the bus didn’t have its handbrake on, or of any investigation into that matter, was a bit weird.
Evia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It does say at the bottom that it’s been referred for investigation
abhibeckert@beehaw.org 11 months ago
“The incident has been reported to officers from Richmond Police District who have commenced an investigation.”
If I was the driver’s lawyer, I’d be instructing him to keep his mouth shut for the entirety of that investigation and whatever criminal charges might follow.
At the start of the video the bus is stopped on a downhill, so the handbrake must have been on.
sqgl@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Article doesn’t say she steered it. Did the driver maybe push it away just enough to reach driveway rather than go over the gutter?
You can see it veers suddenly when it reaches the driveway. The right wheel reaches it first so that would have made it veer right.
And if it hit the gutter it would have slowed, maybe even stopping by the time the rear wheels hit.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Uhhh