TAKOMA PARK, Md. — A woman has died after a driver of a vehicle hit a Metrobus stop in Takoma Park early Monday.
Officers with the Takoma Park Police Department responded around midnight to the area of New Hampshire Avenue and Glenside Drive after receiving a report of a crash involving a pedestrian and a vehicle.
Through an initial investigation, police determined that a Nissan was driving south on New Hampshire Avenue at Glenside Drive when it veered off the road and crashed into a bus stop -- destroying it -- before coming to a rest in a wooded area.
When police arrived at the scene they found an injured woman laying in the road. She was pronounced dead at the scene. It is unknown at this time if she was at the bus stop or elsewhere when she was struck.
Police have since identified the woman as 71-year-old Christina Thomas, of no known address.
The investigation is still underway by the Montgomery County Reconstruction Unit. Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to contact CRU detectives at (240) 773-6620.