A person was struck and killed by a Maryland Transit Administration bus early Friday morning on southbound MD 295 near West Nursery Road in Linthicum. The crash happened around 2:15 a.m., and the victim had not been identified as investigators worked to piece together what happened.
According to WMAR-2 News, no additional information about the pedestrian was immediately available following the crash. WBAL similarly reported that the bus fatally struck the person near Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Nursery Road, with the victim's identity still unknown. The Baltimore Sun also reported on the fatal strike along the same stretch of highway.
Maryland State Police are leading the investigation into the crash, per the station's report. No further details about the circumstances of the collision, the bus route involved, or whether anyone else was hurt have been released.
A Stretch of Highway With a History
This is not the first fatal pedestrian crash reported near this exact interchange. Back in September 2022, troopers from the Glen Burnie Barrack responded to a reported pedestrian struck on southbound Route 295 at Nursery Road, according to the Maryland State Police. The evidence does not establish whether that earlier crash shared any cause or conditions with Friday's incident.
Elsewhere along the same corridor, an unidentified pedestrian was struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle on southbound MD-295 near Route 32 close to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, as reported by WMAR-2 News. That crash happened around 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning and shut down portions of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, with all lanes reopened by 11 a.m. Whether that incident is connected in any way to Friday's crash in Linthicum has not been established.
Bus Crashes Have Been Climbing Statewide
Friday's fatality adds to a pattern of bus-related incidents tracked across Maryland in recent years. Over the past five years, the state has recorded 3,100 bus crashes, according to data cited by WBAL-TV. Reported incidents climbed from 432 in 2021 to 739 in 2024, then dropped to 430 last year, with 301 reported through July of this year, the station notes. The outlet cautions that this figure is not a complete count of every transit bus crash, since it depends on federal and state reporting criteria.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's database shows more than 300 reportable bus crashes in Maryland through July, per the same report.
Other recent MTA bus incidents around the Baltimore area underscore how frequently the agency's fleet has turned up in crash reports. In September 2026, a tree fell on an MTA bus in Reisterstown, injuring five people and shutting down Main Street for hours, the station reported. An MTA bus also slammed into a building in Pikesville, sending 36 people to hospitals. In March, a car hit an MTA bus at St. Paul and Preston, injuring eight people, according to the same WBAL-TV account.
Maryland's Zero Deaths initiative points residents toward crash and fatality data compiled by the Maryland Highway Safety Office as part of a broader push to eliminate roadway deaths and serious injuries statewide. For now, the circumstances behind Friday's fatal crash on Route 295 remain under investigation, and the identity of the person killed has not been released.
