"It didn't seem real because what was going on around, traffic and pedestrians were going by as normal" said Barton. The driver pulled up alongside of her and opened his doors shouting from the drivers' seat, "ma'am are you okay". “I asked her, ‘Do you want to come on this side of the guard rail now?’ and that was the first time she spoke to me and said, ‘Yeah.’ ” 
 
 Barton said he helped her over the railing and suggested they have a seat. After he sat on the sidewalk and talked with her for a few minutes, a corrections officer who had seen her from the Scajaquada walked up the embankment. "She was distraught, she was distant, she was really disconnected. Buffalo, NY (WIVB) - In the three years that Darnell Barton has been driving a Metro bus, he's met all kinds of people, but he will never forget a young lady who he came upon one recent Friday afternoon.
– A Buffalo bus driver is getting the hero's treatment after stopping his bus to get a suicidal young woman off a bridge overpass, reports WIVB-TV. Darnell Barton, who had just picked up about two dozen high school students, spotted the woman on the wrong side of the ledge, seemingly about to jump into traffic, reports the Buffalo News. He stopped his bus, asked her if she needed help, then slowly made his way toward her. "She was distraught, she was distant, she was really disconnected," he recalls. "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." He then sat down with her on the sidewalk until authorities arrived. “Darnell won’t tell you this, but when he went back on his bus, the McKinley students gave him a round of applause,” says a spokesman for the local transit agency.