A 9-year-old girl was killed Thursday afternoon after being hit by a school bus in Bethesda, Maryland, according to police. The Montgomery County Public Schools bus struck the Bradley Hills Elementary student around 4 p.m., at the intersection of Tanglewood Drive and Millwood Road. According to police, the bus — driven by Serigne Makhtar Ndiaye, 53, of Severn — had just finished unloading a group of children, including the 9-year-old girl, and was making a right turn onto Millwood Road from Tanglewood Drive when the bus struck the girl. Police are still investigating the circumstances around the incident. The girl was rushed to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. Around 8:45 p.m., Montgomery County police confirmed that the girl had died.
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Anyone with information about the incident is being asked to contact Montgomery County police’s Collision Reconstruction Unit at (240)-773-6620. Below is a map of the area where the child was struck. [google_map latitude=”38.976719″ longitude=”-77.120129″ zoom=”15″ height=”300px” location_label=”The White House” dynamic_map=”true”] WTOP’s Zeke Hartner contributed to this report.
