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There are only a few details out right now, but it looks like a MARC train and Metrobus collided around 4:30 p.m. this afternoon. Fox5 put out the news first on Twitter, saying as many as 40 passengers are involved. ABC7 reports that the collision took place at the intersection of Rhode Island and Queensbury Road in Riverdale Park, Md., with some passengers taken to the hospital, but so far only with minor injuries. Both the CSX and MARC trains are suspended at the moment. So far there are conflicting reports as to whether the bus hit the train, or vice versa.
MORE: From WTOP/AP:
Metro is honoring MARC tickets on the Camden Line. MARC is also recommending that Camden Line passengers leaving D.C. use the MARC Penn Line trains.There's also a report that the first bus was on the tracks because it got stuck.County fire department spokesman Mark Brady says at about 4:15 p.m. Thursday, the rear end of a Metrobus was on the tracks near Queensbury Road and Rhode Island Avenue in Riverdale, when the MARC train struck the bus. The bus then hit another nearby Metrobus.
7:10 p.m.: Metro has just issued a press release. The story they tell, based on a preliminary report, is than an empty Metrobus was traveling eastbound on Queensbury Road and attempting to cross the railroad tracks when it was delayed by a second Metrobus attempting to make a left turn. While the first bus waited for the second bus to turn, the railroad crossing gate hit the rear of the first bus, and it was unable to move off of the tracks.
A MARC train then hit the first bus, causing it to spin and strike the driver’s side mirror of the second bus. Seven out of 12 passengers on the second bus were taken to an area hospital with minor injuries.
The bus driver of the first bus suffered non-life threatening injuries and was also taken to the hospital.
Prince George’s County police and fire authorities along with Metro Transit Police and Riverdale Police are investigating the incident.
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What I heard was that a broken down Jalopy caused the metrobus to swerve. The jalopy was driven by a red-headed male teenager. Also in the car was a teen with weird, multi-point hat eating hamburgers, and two girls, one brunette, one blond, both hot.
They were on their way home from school at Riverdale High
More intel on this. The teenager reportedly hit the brakes hard to stop from hitting a kitten in the road. The metrobus driver, upon seeing the immediate appearance of a baloon with the word SCREEEEEEECCCH!! above the car, swerved, and hit the train.
I thought the MetroBus (Think of us as a Halfway House on Wheels TM) driver stopped to junkpunch the train.
This deadly transit rivalry has to stop.
Nah, just another attempt upon my precious life. Look closely. See how precious I am? Now you know, because I told you so.
Anyway, I was on the train when the heathens aboard the....bus..... (I shudder when I use that word) attempted to take me out. My superior SKILLZ and intellect saved my bacon yet again.
Speaking of bacon; time to order my wife to order a pizza delivery. We have a totally symbiotic relationship; I order her around, and she follows my orders! Har Har. Ahhh I'm the best. Damn, its amazing that I'm even alive.
But really, what's the point in thinking that you're youthful when your body is cesspool?
Scratch that. Make it; "when your body is a fetid corpse rotting in a cesspool".
The fact that your walking around every day doesn't mean that you've got anything of significance to do.