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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.

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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.

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.

There’s also a report that the first bus was on the tracks because it got stuck.

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.