A bus driver was "laughing his head off" when a mum managed to chase down a bus in Formby.
Leah McDonald was in the process of moving home when a teacher friend rang her and told her that one of her students had left his wallet on the X2 bus heading for Liverpool.
Using an app the teacher managed to track the bus and where it was while Leah quickly drove after it.
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Leah was told it was on the Formby Bypass and thought she would never catch it.
But luckily, Leah managed to catch up to the bus in Formby.
She told the ECHO: "This morning I was at the house with a load of flat pack furniture when [her friend] phoned me saying that one of her students who has autism had left his wallet on the X bus to Liverpool and would I be able to go and try and track it down.
"[The friend] had a live tracker on her phone for the bus so she was letting me know what stop it had stopped at and what streets it was going down. When she said it was on the Formby Bypass I just thought 'I'm never going to catch this'.
"As I got to the end of the Formby Bypass, she said it was stopping at The Grapes so when I got past The Grapes I saw the bus. There were cars in front of me and they just overtook the bus and then I started beeping my horn and flashing my lights at the bus to stop.
"Then it stopped. I had to explain to the driver that I wasn't crazy and that someone had left their wallet on the bus. I apologised to everyone because the bus was packed and explained I wasn't crazy and that I was trying to find something for an autistic boy.
"I went up stairs to the top deck and [her friend] had said he had been sat at a table so I gathered it was the first one. As I looked down the side of the seat it was there and people started cheering."
The mum-of-one said the bus driver was "laughing his head off" when she told him what she had done.
She said: "Oh he was laughing his head off. He just kept saying 'well done, well done'."
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