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Quick-thinking passenger stops tour bus plunging over cliff
A tourist stopped a bus from plunging over a cliff in the Austrian Alps by slamming on the brakes after the driver passed out.
According to the AFP news agency, the vehicle was travelling through the mountains in the Tyrolean Alps with 21 passengers on board when the driver, 76, collapsed.
As the bus continued towards a steep cliff, the passenger, a French tourist, leapt from his seat and slammed on the brakes.
The bus crashed into a barrier at the side of the road and came to a stop, hanging over the cliff edge a short distance from a 100m drop.
A local police spokesman described the situation as ‘a hair’s breadth from catastrophe’.
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