Aurora police are investigating the death of an elderly man who was struck and killed by an RTD bus Monday night, the third bus-related death in as many days.
The identity of the man, said to be his 70s, was not released. Police said it appeared the man might have been on the sidewalk when he was struck at the intersection of South Peoria Street and East Mississippi Avenue.
The bus was traveling north on Peoria and police stopped it about 2 miles later — at Del Mar Circle — and took the driver into custody for questioning and a drug test, Regional Transportation District officials said.
“The pedestrian and the bus were on the sidewalk,” Aurora police Lt. Charles DeShazer said. “We have witnesses who were standing nearby who aren’t sure what happened, just that he ended up under the bus.”
RTD spokesman Scott Reed said the bus driver — whose name was not released — and his passengers were unaware a pedestrian had been struck.
Reed said the driver was an RTD employee, not a driver for a contract firm that leases RTD buses and provides its own drivers. A contract driver was involved in an RTD accident Saturday that killed two people.
