Passengers are celebrated after heroic efforts on national highway 40

Philip Magnusson was the incident leader when the emergency services arrived at the scene of the accident on national highway 40 on Sunday. There, the bus with around 50 passengers had driven into the center rail after the driver suddenly became unconscious.

The two passengers who intervened by taking over the wheel and stopping the bus are now being praised by task leader Philip Magnusson for their brave action.

- It is a heroic intervention that they are doing. They could have been passive and stuck in their seat belts, but now they chose to help and steer the bus. The alternative might have been for the bus to go into the ditch and then we would probably have had a completely different case of accident, he says.