A Metrobus and a charter bus crashed Friday morning amid a rainy commute, sending 19 people, including six children, to hospitals in what the D.C. Fire Department called a “mass casualty incident.”
None of the injuries was thought to be life-threatening, according to Metro and D.C. Fire spokesman Pete Piringer.
The crash occurred about 7:33 a.m. in the 2300 block of Good Hope Road in Southeast D.C. when a charter bus rear-ended the Route 92 Metrobus that was headed to Duke Ellington Bridge, said Metro spokesman Steven Taubenkibel.
The fire department evaluated more than 20 people and sent 13 adults and six children to local hospitals, all of whom were passengers on the Metrobus. A section of Good Hope Road near the crash site was closed during the morning commute.
