WOMAN SAVES BUS
DRIVER DEAD AT WHEEL *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 the other day. The driver died of a heart attack, states the Vancouver Daily Province. “I grabbed the steering wheel and shqved the driver aside,” Mrs. Richard Gadd related. “How 1 ever came through that traffic I’ll never know. I tugged at the wheel every lime we seemed headed for u collision.” Mrs. Gad 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 sific street, a few feet away from a tree. '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20526, 9 April 1941, Page 3
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