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Noah Haswell, Beaver Cnty Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to officials, a woman is expected to be released from the hospital after they said she was struck by a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Oakland on Monday evening. The victim is a 21-year-old student who goes to Carnegie Mellon University and the bus hit her along Fifth Avenue and South Neville Street just after 7 p.m. on Monday after reports of this pedestrian versus vehicle crash. A spokesperson for PRT confirmed that the 58 Greenfield PRT bus was turning left from Neville Street onto Fifth Avenue when it struck the woman. The victim was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. PRT officials stated on Monday night that she was in critical, but stable condition, however; officials expressed yesterday that the woman was expected to be released from the hospital. Officials note that the driver of the bus that hit the woman is being held off from work pending the results of the investigation.