A quick-thinking coach averted what could have been a terrible bus accident for the University of Dubuque women’s basketball team. Apart from the driver, everyone on the bus was OK.“We’re still a little in shock,” Smith told The Associated Press by phone Monday. The actual initial accident and me jumping out and grabbing the wheel felt like three seconds.”After stopping the bus, Smith and the other coaches got the bus out of harm’s way. “For some reason, always had in the back of my mind, what if the bus driver fell asleep. “We were amazed by those guard rails and that’s what we were running over,” head coach Mark Noll said.

Source: National Post January 01, 2018 21:45 UTC