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Now when wigan school boys, Martin Keaton and Brian Cashin were on the bus home yesterday,
they were no doubt thinking what they were going to have for their tea. But just a few
minutes into that journey, the bus driver collapsed at the wheel and the vehicle plowed
into parked cars. Passengers were understandably err, were understandably
panicking, but the 15 year olds calmly took control, and they managed to get everyone
off the bus just before it lurched backwards and crashed for a second time. But the driver
sadly died, but Martin and Brian have been praised for their quick thinking and, happily,
they are here with us err now. Heroes both of you. So we're going to get you to take
us er through this er. Martin, tell us first when you realised there was actually a problem
on board. Well, urm, we realised when we looked t'at
driver and he just, he didn't look right, he was, he was, ya'know panicking a bit and
then his head to went down, so, we knew that were was something up.
And, and the bus must have started to go off track a little bit at that point. And how
was everybody else, how were the other passengers, they must have started to panic a bit.
Well, when it went t'up on t'ut path and then scraped against this car, everyone just went,
ya'know t'panicking. And what were they doing? howowowoderr were
people shouting? Yeah there were like, ya'know really upset
wanting t'try and t'get off, 'cause we thought it was going to be worse than what it actually
was. And Brian, now I mean you guys took control
then, how, how did you calm them all down when this panic was going on?
...Well I... I.. told everyone to get 'em off.. one by one... .... then.. all of sudden..
all of 'em.. half of 'em got off, an' bus started t'rolling t'back....
But, but to get them off, Martin, you, you'd actually hit the emergency button, hadn't
you? No, that was Brian..
Oh, you hit the emergency button Yeah
Which did what? Open the doors? Yeah
Which was quick thinking ....
and then how did you get them off the bus? Do you want to t'um
heh... Well, you tell us this time.
Well, um, we just started shouting to everyone one by one, calmly 'come on, don't panic,
it's going t'be okay'. And jus' helped the elderly people off and then, there was a woman
with her pram with t'baby, and you helped her off, and then t'people just started getting
off. And were you panicking at all? I mean, it
just sound like you, just 'yeah, it's just a normal day, really'
We was fairly scared t'at time. And what were you feeling? Were you sort of
feeling of... Feeling a bit sick, but we just managed to
ya'know, try and keep everyone calm That's brilliant actually, isn't it
and and adjjbjjbllah better still, there came this moment, errm, when aaaa-aaa and panic,
total panic. Not everybody was off, and the bus started to roll backwards, and you actually
hung on to it Yeah
Like superman!!!!111 Holding on to it (pls someone laugh i am funny!!1)
And you managed to sort of.. Yeah I was holding on t'it while Brian t'on
back t'on t'bus WOW
And try and get t'people off and then This is amazing, Brian, because you actually
were on the bus getting everybody off, elso off, weren't you? And then what did you do
with the wheel, the drivers wheel? Turned it around t'get get it on t'curb
So you took control of the steering wheel as well?
Yeah that was so, like, it didn't crash in t'other cars cross road an' in t'wall U WOT
M8 That's brilliant! Clarity of thought, isn't
it, in the moment. So brave, the fact that you stayed on the
bus getting everybody else off and.. And were all the passengers really thanking
you? Did they sort of.. YEAH
What did they say afterwards? They were just 'oh thanks you've saved us'
and all this, and ya'know, upset still and t'panicking but t'calmed down after we all
got off t'bus What's it's been like since you've been back
at school, what have they been saying to you? It's been alright, we've been getting praise
off people and 'well done m8' and all that You'll be getting much more after this interview,
IN FACT, YOU'LL BECOME A MEME random *** about his mum
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