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Dubuque basketball team saved from crash by quick acting Asst. Coach

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January 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

UNDATED (AP) — A quick-thinking coach averted what could have been a terrible bus accident for the University of Dubuque women’s basketball team. The Division III team from Iowa was driving back from a tournament in Nashville, Tennessee, when the driver passed out w2hile the bus was going 70 mph. Assistant coach Justin Smith leapt into action, grabbing the steering wheel and stopping the bus on the interstate. No one was hurt. Says Smith: “I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.”