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Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by a bus in Rockville

By WTOP Staff

WASHINGTON — A Rockville woman has been seriously injured in an accident involving a Montgomery County Ride-On Bus.

Montgomery County police say the accident happened shortly before 6 p.m. on Wednesday night at the intersection of Halpine Road and Rockville Pike.

The bus driver, 58-year-old Fredy Oscar Velasquez from Rockville, was turning from Halpine Road onto northbound Rockville Pike when he hit a woman crossing the street.

She’s been identified as 63-year-old Jila Hamidieh, also from Rockville.

An ambulance took Hamidieh to Suburban Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Montgomery County police are still investigating the circumstances around the crash and whether Hamidieh was legally crossing.

Anyone who has information about this pedestrian collision is asked to contact the Collision Reconstruction Unit at 301-840-2435.

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