Bus Driver Recounts Near Miss With Wrong-Way Driver

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ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) - A police chase that began after an Arlington shooting sped north through the city and onto 183 in Euless going the wrong direction. Driving an empty Roadrunner Charters passenger bus straight into the wrong-way chase was driver Milton Bradley.

"He was driving down the wrong side of the road," he said. "Scary!"

Bradley was using a Bluetooth talking to his son when he spotted the chase barreling towards him. A dash cam caught the audio.

"I just caught a high-speed chase," the startled Bradley said.

"Hold on, hold on," Bradley repeated, each time a little more hectic and more to himself than his son as the danger approached. "Hold on! Hold on!"

Bradley was behind the wheel of a 42,000 pound bus as the suspect's car quickly closed the distance between them.

"It could've been just absolutely catastrophic," said the company's safety manager Alex Frair who has analyzed the bus's video and monitoring systems.

"If he would've turned right he could've slammed right into a police officer," he said. "As he looks left he sees a black car."

"All I can say is at the speed I was going, maybe 40, 45, it was either me or him," Bradley said.

Bradley was trained to minimize the impact of his big bus.

"The judgment that comes in for the driver is not necessarily all about the bus itself and equipment, but what kind of damage and potential fatality could happen for somebody impacting this sized vehicle," Frair said.

Tracking equipment shows Bradley slammed on the brakes and video shows he turned slightly left.

"He hit me," Bradley said. "He hit the car on my left side and he kept going."

Despite clipping the bus and a vehicle, no one was hurt, the suspect was later arrested, his car bearing the damage of only clipping the bus and car.

"To me it looks like a very calculated move to position himself in the safest possible way he could," Frair said.

"This is something you'd see on TV," Bradley said. "This is something you'd never think you'd see in real life. Pretty wild.

"My camera caught all of it."

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