Truant heroine

Mar 17 2008

A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control US school bus she was riding on was handed a detention because she was playing truant.

Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary pupils when the driver fell out of her seat and hit her head.

Amanda jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after it hit two parked cars. No-one was injured in the incident at Seaside, California.