Sheffield snow: Video shows gang of school pupils save stranded bus, stricken in snow in Crosspool

The bus driver was stuck in the snow.

But this video, taken in Crosspool village, in Sheffield yesterday, shows how scores of big-hearted youngsters sprang into action to push him up a hill and get the bus moving again.

Footage taken just after midday yesterday shows how a bus appeared to be stuck at the top of Selbourne Road, struggling to move forward onto Sandygate Road.

The wheels were spinning, but the bus was going nowhere.

It then shows a small legion of youngsters, thought to be from local schools, running towards the double decker on the 51 route, before moving in behind the vehicle en-masse and trying to push it forward.

Minutes later the bus was moving and looping back to another bus stop, which was packed with youngsters who had been waiting there after schools had sent pupils home early because of the weather.

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It is not known which school the pupils went to. Crosspool is close to both Tapton and King Edward VII secondary schools.

A cheer went up among people in the area when the bus finally moved on.