Eyes on the road mean eyes on the community for drivers of buses—transit, school and otherwise. This year, Milwaukee transit drivers, alone, have spotted and rescued some nine lost or missing children.
And the most recent rescue went viral when someone shot a video of driver Irena Ivic stopping in traffic and running out to scoop up a freezing baby as she toddled, crying, down a sidewalk by a busy street. A passenger pitched in with a coat to warm the child, and the driver (who was a mother and former teacher in her native Serbia) soothed the child until authorities arrived.
The county honored Ivic for the way she expemplifed excellence and for the way she showed “humanity at its best.” Said a county adminitrator at a press conference: “Stuff like this matters. No way you can watch the video and not think, ‘thank God. This is the right thing to do.’ This is the kind of human impulse we should be celebrating. Absent what (Ivic) did, we’d be reading a really different story.”
