SEASIDE, Calif. - A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention because she was skipping school.

 

Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.

 

Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured.

 

She said had asked the bus driver for a ride because she felt sick at school.

 

"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," said Rouse's grandmother, Sally Correll. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."

 

A spokesperson for the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District could not immediately be reached Saturday.

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