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11-year-old stops school bus after driver suffers medical emergency,loses control:Naples Daily News Page 1 of 2
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11-year—old stops school bus after driver
suffers medical emergency, loses control
By JESSICA LIPSCOMB
Originally published 08:46 p.m.,September 18,2012
Updated 08:08 a.m.,September 19,2012
A Collier County sixth-grader is being credited with stopping a school bus Tuesday
after the driver suffered an apparent heart attack and lost control.
Jackson Bonar was the last person on the bus as he headed home from his first day of
an after-school program at Oakridge Middle School.
He and the bus driver, Robert W. Kelly,were two streets away from his house in
Golden Gate Estates around 6 p.m. when the bus started moving slower, then faster.
Jackson looked over at the 65-year-old driver.
"He made a strange face at me and fell against the window,"the 11-year-old said.
They were headed toward a palm tree when Jackson jumped out of his seat, hit the
brakes and steered the bus into a chain-link fence on Weber Avenue near Third
Avenue Northwest.
"I figured if it hit the tree, the air bag would go off and hurt him even more," Jackson
said.
An Oakridge teacher who happened to be driving by got out of her car and, with the
help of another man, opened the bus doors and started to help. Jackson called his
mom, who called 911.
Paramedics said Kelly still was alive and conscious when he was taken to the hospital,
according to Jackson's mother, Paula Bonar. She said he appeared to have suffered a
heart attack.
"That was a great reaction he had going," Bonar said of her son.
Jackson said he knew what to do because he has experience driving golf carts and
four-wheelers.
"He's my hero," said his dad, Doug Bonar.
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10/23/2012 Item 5.A.
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 5.A.
Item Summary: Presentation recognizing Jackson Bonar, an 11 year old student at
Oakridge Middle School,for his bravery and heroism.To be presented by Commissioner Hiller.
Meeting Date: 10/23/2012
Prepared By
Name: BartlettKristi
Title: Executive Aide to the BCC
9/26/2012 10:19:28 AM
Submitted by
Title: Executive Aide to the BCC
Name: BartlettKristi
9/26/2012 10:19:29 AM
Approved By
Name: Mitchelllan
Title: Executive Manager,BCC
Date: 10/2/2012 11:31:16 AM
Name: SheffieldMichael
Title: Manager-Business Operations, CMO
Date: 10/3/2012 9:14:26 AM
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