On Friday, October 18, 37-year-old Darnell Barton was driving his Elmwood 20 bus southbound toward Buffalo State College when he spotted a young woman standing on a narrow ledge outside the railing over the Scajaquada Expressway. She looked like she was about to jump into traffic.

He pulled up beside her, opened the bus doors and shouted at her, asking if she was okay.

She didn't answer.

He heard one of the students on the bus — he had just picked up 20 teenagers from a nearby high school — crying, "I don't want to see someone die."

So Barton, a father of two, got out of the bus and approached the woman.

"She was distraught, she was distant, she was really disconnected. I grabbed her arm and put my arm around her and said, 'Do you want to come on this side of the guardrail?' and that was actually the first time she spoke to me she said yes." he told WIVB.

Barton was able to lift her over the railing and onto the sidewalk. He sat on the sidewalk with her and talked for a few minutes until a corrections officer and crisis counsellor joined them.

"I said, 'Whatever it is, it might feel bad, it may feel bad, but jumping is not the answer,'" Barton said.

"While I was holding her, listening to their questions, I just prayed," the bus driver told the Associated Press. "Whatever was on her mind, it had her. It really, really had her."

An ambulance arrived soon after.

"Knowing that I saved somebody's life, it makes me feel good, being at the right place at the right time," Barton told TODAY.

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