{"id":351729,"date":"2026-04-24T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/head-on-bus-crash-near-pentagon-stop-injures-23-including-defense-department-workers"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:50:51","slug":"head-on-bus-crash-near-pentagon-stop-injures-23-including-defense-department-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/head-on-bus-crash-near-pentagon-stop-injures-23-including-defense-department-workers","title":{"rendered":"Head-on bus crash close to Pentagon cease injures 23, together with Protection Division staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-headline\">\n<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \"><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">Two buses have crashed head-on near a Pentagon bus stop, injuring 23 people, including Defense Department personnel<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">ARLINGTON, Va. &#8212; <\/span>Two buses crashed head-on near a Pentagon bus stop on Friday, injuring 23 people, including <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-department-of-defense\">Defense Department<\/a> personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Omni Ride and Fairfax Connector transit buses struck each other shortly before 7:30 a.m., according to a press release from the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Emergency personnel transported 18 of the injured to local hospitals for further medical evaluation. Five were treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ten of the 23 injured passengers are from the Defense Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Metro Access Road was closed pending an accident investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The accident altered mass transit operations for several hours. Camera footage from the scene showed the two buses colliding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Arlington Fire Department confirmed that the crash occurred and that it responded, but it referred questions to the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, the federal law enforcement agency at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">It was unclear what caused the crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/head-bus-crash-pentagon-stop-injures-23-people-132355747\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two buses have crashed head-on near a Pentagon bus stop, injuring 23 people, including Defense Department personnel ARLINGTON, Va. &#8212; Two buses crashed head-on near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19975,28335,28333,2443,28334,19976,28336,9105,19977,412],"class_list":["post-351729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-american-airlines-flight-77","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-fireplace-division","tag-department-of-defense","tag-metro-entry-highway","tag-national-register-of-historic-places-in-arlington-county-virginia","tag-pentagon-drive-safety-company","tag-protection-division","tag-the-pentagon","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351731,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351729\/revisions\/351731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}