A woman was seriously injured in Southeast D.C. today after a deer knocked her out while she was exiting a Metro bus. The incident occurred near Fort Stanton Park.

WJLA has the story:

The incident occurred near a Metro bus stop at Alabama Avenue SE and Naylor Road SE just after 9 a.m.

Witnesses told ABC7 the deer was traveling up Naylor Road, doing fine, until the deer encountered a number of people at a Metro bus stop. They said the deer became alarmed at the small crowd of people and tried to “leap” over them.

One witness, Larry Knight, said the deer leaped high in the air, and as it was coming down, struck a woman coming off the bus. “A lady was coming off the bus – his back legs kicked her, and knocked her down,” Knight described.

The woman was taken to Howard University Hospital.