Crime & Safety

Man Struck, Killed By School Bus On Clopper Road

A 55-year-old man was struck and killed by a school bus Thursday morning, south of Germantown.

Montgomery County police released the identity of a Gaithersburg man who was struck and killed by a school bus on Clopper Road Thursday morning.

At around 6:30 a.m., George Pezdirtz III, 55, of the 900 block of Clopper Road, was walking accross Clopper, just east of just east of Metropolitan Grove Road, when he was struck by a Montgomery County school bus traveling west on Clopper, according to police.

Police said the school bus driver, Telma Elizabeth Ramirez, 57, of Poolesville, remained at the scene.

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A Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman said no students were on the bus.

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