UVA baseball staff sprang into action to try to aid a bus driver who lost consciousness behind the wheel of the team bus in Miami on Thursday.
Coach Brian O’Connor and his staff helped steer the bus ferrying players from the Miami International Airport from a busy intersection and began administering CPR, according to Miami Fire Rescue spokesperson Capt. Ignatius Carroll.
The driver was taken to a hospital in “extremely critical condition,” Carroll said.
“We commend the staff for their quick actions in trying to gain control of the bus as well as trying to initiate lifesaving efforts for this driver,” Carroll said. “This could have been a lot worse if they remained in the intersection.”
The Virginia baseball team is in Miami for a weekend series with top-ranked Miami that is set to begin Friday.
The bus, from Abbot Trailways, a Virginia company, rolled through a busy intersection and crashed into a tree,
Three cars and a motor scooter that were parked near the tree were all damaged in the crash. A metal pole crashed through the windshield of the bus in the vicinity of the seats occupied by coaches in the moments before driver fell ill, and wedged the door shut.
No players or coaches were injured in the accident.
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