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KENOSHA COUNTY, Wis. (WTMJ) — A terrifying situation developed over the weekend after a charter bus driver collapsed on I-94 in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
The trip became a living nightmare for 34 passengers aboard on their way home from playing Bingo. They're alive thanks to Jill Bien. Bien jumped into the driver's seat and was able to stop the bus.
An empty driver's seat first alerted her that something was wrong.
"All that went through my mind was I can't believe the seat was empty," recalls Bien. "I couldn't process where he had gone to."
As the bus started to crash into the interstate retaining wall, fear overtook her, and then she just reacted.
"I didn't have a chance to stand up and ask anybody if they knew how to drive a bus and could get up here. People were being tossed around," she says.
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