A quick-thinking Minnesota man helped save 18 children after their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency while behind the wheel — prompting a local nonprofit to gift him a $1,000 check for his heroic actions.

Ebro Ahmed, of St. Paul, was outside Bricks Snacks and Tobacco in Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood on Monday when he watched a Battle Creek Middle School bus roll past him with its doors wide open and lights flashing.

“I saw a bus roll past me with the doors open, and I saw the bus driver seizing up,” Ahmed, who works at the convenience store near where the incident unfolded, told 5 Eyewitness News on Tuesday.

Footage obtained by the news station shows Ahmed running and jumping onto the moving bus.

“So I just ran out to the bus, I tried to put it in park, I threw it in reverse by accident, and then I ended up getting it in neutral, pulled the parking brake.…