A Beaver County manwas charged Wednesday with reckless endangerment after late-night speeding led to a two-vehicle crash in a North Side parking lot.
Police have called the lot a magnet for racing and “street takeovers.”
Police said Daveon Rush, 19, of Beaver Falls, accelerated a white Audi shortly before midnight Tuesday in the lot near a North Point Drive office building “in a reckless manner, as to purposely get the vehicle to spin out into a drift.”
City camera footage showed at least two passengers in the Audi “hanging outside of the front and rear passenger windows while entering the turns at a high rate of speed,” the complaint said.
Rush then zipped into a turn, lost control of the car, and crashed into a black BMW parked nearby, the complaint said.
Police took the Audi into evidence. The BMW was towed.
Rush was charged with three counts of recklessly endangering another person and summary counts of disorderly conduct and racing on highways, among other counts.
He was taken to the Allegheny County Jail and awaited arraignment Wednesday afternoon.
Rush’s attorney was not listed in court records.
The parking lot where Rush was arrested sits near the Ohio River and the base of the West End Bridge in the city’s Chateau neighborhood. The criminal complaint called The Cardello Building, whose tenants use the lot, part of an area “known by officers to be used for street racing and vehicle gatherings (or) ‘street takeovers.’”