Heart-stopping video shows middle schoolers saving their bus after driver passes out at the wheel

Heart-stopping video from wrong a schoolhouse autobus showed astir a twelve Mississippi mediate schoolhouse students jumping into enactment aft their autobus operator mislaid consciousness Wednesday down the wheel.

Video from the Hancock County School District captured the driver, Leah Taylor, passing retired during an asthma onslaught arsenic the autobus continued rolling forward.

A pupil successful the beforehand of the autobus noticed Taylor slouched implicit and grabbed the wheel, earlier she concisely regained consciousness.

Students could beryllium seen slamming connected the brakes aft the autobus operator passed retired a 2nd clip down the wheel. (Hancock County School District via Storyful)

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Other students ran up to the beforehand of the autobus arsenic she collapsed a 2nd time, falling backward.

One lad rapidly slammed connected the brakes, arsenic a miss administered medicine Taylor was holding and others called for help.

Students appeared to springiness the operator medicine aft she passed retired astatine the wheel. (Hancock County School District via Storyful)

Hancock Middle School main Melissa Saucier told section outlet WLOX she was "not amazed to perceive that our kids remained calm and acted swiftly."

"This exigency concern could person decidedly been detrimental and they handled it precisely however they should have," Saucier said. "We’re highly arrogant of them."

Students were seen moving to the beforehand of the autobus to assistance the driver. (Hancock County School District via Storyful)

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The students — McKenzy Finch, Jackson Casnave, Darrius Clark, Kayleigh Clark and Destiny Cornelius — were commended astatine a schoolhouse pep rally, the outlet reported.

Taylor told WLOX she is feeling amended and is thankful the students "saved her life."

The Hancock County School District did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

Affiliate FOX 26 Houston contributed to this report.