Photo by Mehan Jayasuriya Four months after she was struck and seriously injured by a now-fired Metrobus driver, Amanda Mahnke has filed suit against the District transit agency for $30 million, WTTG/FOX5 reports. Mahnke was jogging near the intersection of Connecticut and Florida avenues NW on the morning of Sept. 3 when the driver, Carla Proctor, ran her over while operating Metrobus #4262, which was empty at the time. Mahnke suffered serious and life-threatening…

In case you missed this story from FOX 5 on Friday night, reporter Ron Plater found that Carla Proctor, the former Metrobus driver behind the wheel of the bus that struck 30-year-old Amanda Mahnke on Sept. 3, is being accused of running the light at the intersection of Connecticut and Florida Avenues before she hit Mahnke. FOX 5 has learned that police concluded the light was already yellow when the bus driver entered the…

That’s the word from WTOP’s Adam Tuss, who reports that the specific reasons for the termination of 43-year-old Metrobus operator Carla Proctor have not been disclosed. But Proctor, who struck 30-year-old Amanda Mahnke while she was jogging near the intersection of Florida and Connecticut Avenues on Sept. 3, has indeed reportedly been let go by the transit agency. The Washington Post recently reported that Proctor had been involved in two previous, more minor on…

The Washington Post’s James Hohmann digs into the driving record of Carla Proctor, the Metrobus driver who was behind the wheel of the bus that struck 30-year-old jogger Amanda Mahnke on Sept. 3. Proctor had two previous on-the-job accidents: one in 2004, when she crashed a Metrobus into the back of a parked vehicle on the 1300 block of Wisconsin Ave. NW, and another in 2003, when she allegedly failed to properly apply a…

The Metrobus driver who struck 30-year-old jogger Amanda Mahnke at the intersection of Connecticut and Florida Avenues NW last week was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to a statement given to WTOP’s Adam Tuss by Metro spokesperson Lisa Farbstein. No charges have been filed in the crash, and the identity of the driver has not yet been released. Mahnke, who is the communications director for Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), is…