A Metrobus driver was busy talking to a passenger when he fatally struck a 35-year-old man sitting on a busy Northwest D.C. street, according to a D.C. police report.

Reginal Johnson, a Metrobus driver for eight years, told police that he was talking to a rider when he hit Fredrick Robinson on 14th Street just north of Columbia Heights on Sept. 27, according to the report.

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