Landscaper Hit And Killed In Haymarket: Police

HAYMARKET, VA—A landscaping worker was killed Wednesday morning after being hit by a school bus in the area of Old Carolina Road and Piedmont Vista Drive, according to Prince William County Police. Eusebio Joya Castro, 53, of Aldie was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no students on the bus.

Shortly after 8 a.m., police responded to the scene and found that a landscaping truck was stopped in the right lane of Old Carolina Road while preparing to mow and landscape the area. But the truck and the worker standing behind it were hit by a bus in the same lane.

The driver of the truck was inside the cab and had to be removed by Fire & Rescue workers. Both the driver of the truck and the school bus, the latter a 57-year-old Front Royal woman, were taken to an area hospital with injuries that weren't life threatening.

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