Bus driver Darnell Barton saves woman on Buffalo bridge ledge in New York This video shows a Buffalo Bus Driver helping a suicidal woman who was about to jump off a bridge. Inspirational ... Bus driver Darren Barton helps the distraught woman over the rail of the bridge of the Scajaquada Expressway in Buffalo, New York. A BUS driver with a vehicle full of passengers noticed something unusual showing on his on-board camera when he pulled up at lights. Darnell Barton saw a woman was standing on the outside ledge of the Elmwood Avenue bridge over the Scajaquada Expressway in Buffalo, New York. "I'm a football guy so when you sit the bench and the coach calls your number, you gotta go in there make a play, do what the play calls for, and I think that's what I did," Barton told WIVB. Hero ... Bus driver Darnell Barton goes to talk to a woman on the outside of Elmwood Avenue bridge in Buffalo, New York. He stopped his Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Metro Bus alongside of the woman on the bridge. "It didn't seem real because what was going on around, traffic and pedestrians were going by as normal" he said. Barton opened his doors and shouted from the driver's seat: "Ma'am are you okay." She did not reply so he got out of his bus and walked towards her. 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. Barton lifted the woman from the outside of the railing to the safety of the sidewalk. It was meant to be. I was supposed to be there for her at that moment and I was. I wanted to convey that whatever it was, I'm going to help you through and it's not as serious as jumping onto the 198. When Barton sat with the woman on the pavement, he was joined by a prison officer and a counsellor who took care of her. For help with emotional difficulties, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or www.lifeline.org.au