LINDEN, N.J. - A quick-thinking and fast-acting schoolteacher has been hailed as a hero after she jumped into an SUV that was rolling toward a group of students outside a school in Linden, New Jersey, on Wednesday.The school district shared video footage from a security camera at Soehl Middle School that shows an SUV pulling up to the curb, the driver exiting, and then the vehicle rolling forward.
The video also shows a group of middle-schoolers standing on the sidewalk a few dozen feet away and the SUV rolling over the curb and onto the sidewalk.Teacher Valerie Tauriello, who appears to be wearing an orthopedic boot on one leg, waves at another teacher and the children while she runs around the SUV and gets in the driver-side door, the.