A bus driver and a 10-year-old student were recognized on Monday night during a Buckeye Local board of education meeting and were awarded a certificate of merit.

Officials with the school said the young boy, Trenton Phillips, was riding the school bus last Tuesday when he noticed an elderly woman lying on the side County Road 39 in Piney Fork.

He quickly told his bus driver, Loretta Bell, who stopped and helped the elderly woman who had been laying there in the snow for several hours.

Officials said the woman may not have survived if it wasn't for their heroic actions.

NEWS9 talked to both of them about what they saw.

"We were going down the road and I thought I saw something moving and I did," said Phillips. "Her hand was waving up in the air and that's the only reason I saw her."

"I thought I didn't see anyone but then again I wasn't looking in anyone's direction," said Bell. "I had to stop the bus and go back to where he was at to look out the window and then I did see her."

The woman's family sent a letter that was read by Superintendent Mark Miller thanking the driver and the student for saving her life.