If there was some sort of fairy dust I could sprinkle on my kids to either stay young or bypass the teenage years completely, I may consider it. Those teen years are my biggest fear. Puberty, sex, and driving. No thanks. But I can't keep my kids locked in a room from 13 to 18 (right?), so instead of freaking out over all the terribly tragic stories out there, I need to focus on the good ones. Seventeen-year-old Graceann Rumer is a good kid. She makes me see it's okay to let teens be teens and learn to drive. Just two weeks ago, she was figuring out which is the gas pedal and which is the brake and had been driving to school with her family for practice. But on Tuesday she decided to take the school bus instead.
It was also on Tuesday that her bus driver, 51-year-old Charles Duncan, had a heart attack while driving and slumped to the floor. His body was blocking the brake pedal as the bus headed for oncoming traffic with nearly 40 students on board.
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