State police: 1 person may be dead as bus plunges off I-495 in Md. suburbs of DC, more hurt

1 may be dead in bus crash on highway outside DC

BETHESDA, Md. — Maryland State Police say a commuter bus plunged off a highway outside the nation’s capital, perhaps killing one person and injuring several others.

State police spokesman Greg Shipley said parents and children were aboard the bus that fell 45 feet off a skyramp of the Washington beltway and landed below along Interstate 270 in Bethesda on Wednesday afternoon.

Shipley says some victims are still being extricated. He says one person may have been killed but didn’t have details.

The severely damaged white bus, with green lettering reading “Wolf’s,” is sitting upright just over a jersey wall from a lane of I-270. Rescue workers have propped up ladders to reach inside the shattered windows.