One person is dead after being hit by an Augusta Public Transit Bus Monday morning.

The bus was making a left turn onto 15th Street from Laney Walker Boulevard when it hit pedestrian Ji Cheng.

The bus driver says he had the green turning arrow and didn't see Cheng.

Ji was headed east on Laney Walker toward the Medical College of Georgia.

She was a first year graduate student at MCG studying biomedical science. She was originally from China, but lived in student housing on campus.

Some people who walk through that intersection for work and class say it is not safe.

Speeding and illegal turns are two complaints.

Augusta traffic engineers say they just added new pedestrian crosswalks to the intersection, but walkers say more should be done.

City leaders say in the past four years there have been seven pedestrian accidents at that intersection, but they say those numbers are low for such a high traffic area.