SEAT PLEASANT, Md. (WUSA/AP) - One person is dead and several injured after a car collided with a Metrobus, according to police.

The traffic accident took place at Central Ave. and Soper Lane a few minutes before 10 p.m. on Friday, just outside the Addison Rd.-Seat Pleasant Metro stop. Police say witnesses confirmed that two cars were racing at high speeds westbound on Central Ave. when one lost control and hit the Metrobus.

Authorities say the driver of the vehicle that struck the bus is dead. Forty passengers were on the bus at the time of the accident, eight sustained minor injuries and were taken to a local hospital. 

The second car struck a traffic sign on Central Ave. The driver was transported to the hospital with  non-life threatening injures. Police say alcohol and speed were a factor in this accident.

The deceased driver has been identified as 22-year-old Cleon David Willis of Bowie, Md.

When Karen Flanagan walks across the finish line of the “Step Up with Walgreens” Challenge on Sat., Oct. 20, she’ll be taking the steps at least 21 pounds lighter.

The Manassas resident reluctantly signed up for the challenge in August, prodded by her daughter, Walgreens employee Fawn Flanagan, and now is in the running for an individual prize worth $500.

“I’ve been trying to lose weight,” said Karen, whose wake-up call came when she went in for a physical this summer, the first since “I can’t remember.”  Raising five children and being a grandmother to five more, plus working a physically demanding job as a pet groomer, the 55-year-old had just plain neglected her own health.  “So when I walked in Walgreens and Fawn said, ‘Mom, come over here!’  I knew I was in for it.”