A crash involving a bus carrying University of South Carolina students left eleven people injured Friday, Mississippi officials said.
The bus reportedly blew a tire and rammed into a concrete barrier on Interstate 10 near Bay St. Louis.
Police Chief Toby Schwartz said that the bus driver, 55-year-old Tina Wilson, saved the situation after the vehicle careened away on two wheels.
Wilson “took every piece of strength in her body to hold that steering wheel long enough to get it back down on the road” and onto all four wheels, Schwartz said.
Wilson was eventually ejected from the broken windshield and student Paul Clune took over grabbing the steering wheel until the bus stopped half a mile away.
“If that bus had flipped, we would have had casualties. It’s the bus driver and student that saved those kids. The bus driver is an incredible hero,” Schwartz added.
The bus was carrying 56 members of the university’s chapter of Sigma Epsilon fraternity and guests.
The bus driver and a student were critically wounded while nine other students suffered moderate injuries.
