Blog: Motor Vehicle Accidents - Page 7

A 23-year-old Ambridge man died after he was struck by a vehicle on Windgap Avenue near the Windgap-Fairywood border. The young man exited his vehicle after he hit a deer to check the damage that was done. A second vehicle then came and struck him and his vehicle. Police say the accident occurred just before 11 a.m. on Monday, January 11, 2016. The victim was unresponsive when paramedics arrived on the scene. He was then transported to Allegheny General Hospital...

Police departments must balance the need to take criminal suspects into custody with their duty to protect the public from danger. Among other things, this means developing a policy on high-speed chases that minimizes the risk of innocent bystanders getting hit by a car. A violent chase that injured five people, including a 12-year-old girl, in Pittsburgh recently has drawn the attention of the city’s Citizen Police Review Board, and led to a halt on...

Just weeks after the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police announced a temporary halt to most high-speed police chases, suburban police have gotten involved in a chase that resulted in a serious crash in the city. Two people were seriously hurt, including the suspect and one of two other motorists who were involved in the wreck but not part of the chase. It is not clear from a story by WTAE-TV why the chase began, but it appears to have begun in Brentwood and ended...

A woman was struck and killed by a vehicle on Tuesday in Monroeville Giant Eagle's parking lot. The victim, an 87-year-old woman, was pushing her shopping cart through the parking lot's crosswalk when she was struck by an SUV. After she was struck, she ended up underneath the SUV. Bystanders rushed to her aid and helped pull her out from underneath the vehicle. They were performing CPR on her when emergency crews arrived on the scene. The woman was then...

Last week, a married couple was killed in an accident that involved a Port Authority bus and an SUV. The accident occurred near the border of the Oakland and Hill District neighborhoods. The couple had just gotten off the bus and were crossing the street when an SUV came around the bus and struck the male victim who was in a motorized wheelchair. He and his wife, who ran to his aid, both ended up in the bus's path. As the bus began pulling away, it struck...