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This is the incredible moment a bus driver helped to prevent a suicidal woman from throwing herself off a bridge.

Darrell Barton was driving a bus full of passengers along his route in Buffalo, New York when he saw the woman teetering over the edge of the bridge.

Dramatic CCTV footage shows Mr Barton stop his bus and slowly approach the woman, who is hanging over the traffic below.

As worried passengers onboard look on, the bus driver slowly coaxes the woman, believed to be in her 20s, away from the bridge's edge.

He then sits down next to her on the roadside and starts talking to her before help arrived.

After returning to his bus to continue the journey, the bus' passengers started applauding their driver.

As reported by Sky News, Mr Barton told a local television station: "She was distraught, she was distant, she was really disconnected.

"It was meant to be. I was supposed to be there for her at that moment and I was."