Three people were hospitalized — one of them in critical condition — after a City of Pittsburgh garbage truck hit a sedan on the Tri-Boro Expressway in Turtle Creek, causing a four-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon.
The garbage truck was driving eastbound on the expressway in Turtle Creek around 12:30 p.m. when it hit the rear of a Mitsubishi sedan that was stopped at a red light, Allegheny County Police said.
Police said the truck, described by police as a dump truck, then continued through the expressway’s intersection with Grant Street, striking a Chevrolet pickup before overturning on its side.
A tire was knocked off the Chevy and struck an unoccupied Turtle Creek police cruiser, police said.
First responders went to the 100 block of Monroeville Avenue and found three people in the vehicles, police said. One person was taken taken to the hospital in critical condition; the other two were transported in stable condition.
Detectives from the county police homicide squad are investigating.
Molly Onufer, a spokesman for Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor, said the garbage truck might have been in Turtle Creek because that is a route city trucks take to the landfill.
She declined further comment.