A Cobb County Schools bus driver is being called a hero after he saved the life of an elementary school student who was choking on a piece of candy.
A little more than a month after starting as a bus driver for the district, Michael Green said a Mableton Elementary School student told him that she was choking on a piece of candy.
Green then pulled the bus over and performed the Heimlich maneuver on the girl and was able to get the piece of candy out of the girl’s throat.
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“I had an elementary student swallow a piece of candy. As we were headed to take them home, one of the kids on the bus told me she was choking, ‘she’s choking. She’s choking.’ So, I looked in the mirror and saw her standing and holding her throat. I pulled the bus over and performed the Heimlich maneuver on her, and I was able to dislodge the piece of candy out of her throat,” Green said.
After the incident, Green drove the student back to campus so that school staff could care for her until she could be picked up by her father.