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. Reeves went to the front of the bus after he noticed the driver had fallen, stepped on the brakes and steered away from traffic on the road to bring the vehicle to a stop, according to video obtained by CBS News. After Reeves told his schoolmates to call for help, emergency responders – along with the principal of Carter – arrived. None of the children onboard were hurt. Reeves had also prevented the bus from striking at least one car and a house that were in its path, said a Facebook post from local city council member Jonathan Lafferty, which identified the quickly acting boy. First responders treated the driver for an unspecified medical emergency while the students were loaded on to a different bus and brought safely home. “The city of Warren is very proud of our [seventh] grade hero,” Lafferty’s post said. “This young man jumped into action … avoiding what could have been a tragic accident.” Local public school district superintendent Robert Livernois added: “The student who helped stop the bus made all the difference, and I could not be prouder of his efforts.” Of the roughly 111 people who are killed each year in school bus-related accidents in the US, and the much larger number who are injured, the majority are inside another car, or are pedestrians or bicyclists, according to the National Safety Council. School bus crashes are relatively rare. One study found that there are about 63,000 crashes involving buses of all kinds in the US in a typical year. The organization Schoolbus Fleet estimates that nearly 490,000 yellow school buses provide transportation daily in the US, making them a safer option for children than walking or getting a regular car ride, the National Safety Council added. Reeves’s mother, Ireta, said at a news conference on Thursday that watching the video of her son’s bus driver lose consciousness made her “heart skip a beat”. “I can’t even express how much [pride] … I’m extremely proud of him,” she said of Dillon. Reeves’s father, Steve, explained how he would drive with Dillon on his lap down largely quiet country roads when he was a child. Dillon has also practiced pulling cars into driveways and is a skilled, attentive driver of golf carts, Steve and Ireta Reeves said. “It’s an honor,” Steve Reeves remarked. “We’ve got a little hero. “He could probably drive one of the cars out of here and be OK. I promise you that.” Later, Ireta Reeves wrote on Facebook that her son was struggling to cope with the emotions spurred on by the crisis in which he intervened and to speak about it. “We are respecting Dillon’s decisions and making sure that he decides when the time is right to share his story,” Ireta Reeves wrote in a post that thanked her community for its support.