Accident Victim Settles With Metro For $3.35 Million

Mary Best, the woman who lost both legs last year when a Metro bus jumped the curb, crashed into a Georgia Avenue barbershop and pinned her in the wreckage, will get $3.35 million in a settlement with the transit agency, according to sources familiar with the settlement.

Best, 64, a Washington resident who worked in a day-care center before the April 1996 accident, had filed a $20 million lawsuit against Metro that would have come to trial early next year. The settlement was reached last month.

Best, who required months of treatment and painful therapy, must use a…