A teacher prevents an accident and saves the lives of nine children in Russia

A primary school teacher saved the lives of nine children by preventing the vehicle they were traveling in from crashing after the driver collapsed, in the Russian city of Tula, in the province of the same name.

According to Tatiana Shulenina, the distressing incident, which occurred last June, occurred when she and the minors were returning home from a children’s camp. The driver, during the journey, lost consciousness and the bus entered the opposite lane. “I got up, grabbed the steering wheel first and drove towards our lane,” the teacher said in an interview with the REN TV channel.

When he drove the vehicle into his lane, he sat between the two seats and tried to reach the pedals, but later he realized that there was a railway bridge and it was very dangerous to go under. So she decided to drive into a field. “There [en el campo] I already reached for the pedals, the clutch and the brake, pressed them and stopped the vehicle,” Shulenina recalls.

«The action of our compatriot is worthy of special respect. In an emergency situation, he showed initiative and courage, he did not allow the tragedy,” said the governor of Tula, Aleksei Dyumin, in a statement at the beginning of August.

In addition, he reported that the teacher will be recognized with the regional Honor and Courage medal on September 9, on the day of the province of Tula and the Hero City of Tula, noting that Shulenina “reacted in time”, took control off the bus on a busy road, took the children to safety and also called an ambulance to assist the driver. With RT

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