It was just a normal day for bus driver James Rossi who was driving his assigned route in London...until a pale-looking boy approached him on-board.
The 16-year-old boy came to James (37) for help after the bus was held at a stop for five minutes in the Hampstead area to regulate the service. He told the driver that he urgently needed to use his EpiPen after becoming ill. It's believed that he ate a cereal bar which contained nuts.
Straight away, James agreed to help the boy out, and it's safe to say that he went beyond the call of duty.
He announced to the other passengers that they would be going straight to the boy's destination, without stopping unless he had to.
"They were all very good about it," James told The Evening Standard.
"I didn't know it was a life or death situation but I knew it was important, I knew I had to do something."
"His face was bright red and puffy and his eyes were bloodshot and watering, so when he told me he had to get home, I just said no problem, shut the door and off we went."
James, who is a dad-of-two from Watford, and has worked as a bus driver for seven years, thought nothing more of the incident after dropping the boy home. It was only later when he received a call from his boss that he realised how touch-and-go it had been.
The boy's mum, a consultant at a Hampstead hospital, had called to thank the hero driver.
"According to his mum, if I hadn't have got him home as quickly as I did, he would have died," James said.
The poor boy doesn't want to be named as he's embarrassed about the incident, but he and his mum are set to visit James so they can thank him in person.
This isn't the first time James has saved someone. Previously, a passenger became suicidal on-board, so he asked the other passengers to leave the bus and drove the person straight to the hospital.
What a hero!
