Michigan boy hailed as hero for preventing bus crash after driver fainted

Seventh-grader Dillon Reeves of Carter middle school in Warren, north of Detroit, took steering wheel and brought vehicle to safety

A community in Michigan is heaping praise on to a seventh-grader who regained control of a school bus whose driver lost consciousness and was on the verge of crashing, according to officials.

Dillon Reeves was on a bus taking him as well as other students home from a day of classes at Carter middle school in Warren, just north of Detroit, when the driver began to feel dizzy and passed out, said a statement from the local education system's superintendent.