SAVES BUS.
ELDERLY WOMAN'S COURAGE.
A 50-year-old woman who had never driven an automobile brought a down-town-bound bus, its driver dead at the wheel, to a stop after a wild ride through traffic in Detroit recently. The driver died of a heart attack, states the "Vancouver Daily Province."
"I grabbed the steering wheel and shoved the driver aside," Mrs. Richard Gadd related. "How I ever came through that traffic I'll never know. I tugged at the wheel every time we seemed headed for a collision."
Mrs. Gadd piloted the bus through a busy intersection, unable to heed a stop sign, and brought it to a halt, the motor choked and lights ablaze, on a. aide street a few feet away from a tree.
"Pretty good for an old lady," she commented, after regaining her composnre. It is quite a feeling at my age to know yon react just aa you did -when jgaa
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 90, 17 April 1941, Page 10
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