{"id":109848,"date":"2026-02-10T06:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109848\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:51:06","slug":"police-say-woman-was-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol-during-westinghouse-academy-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109848\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say woman was driving under the influence of alcohol during Westinghouse Academy crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Police said that a woman was driving under the influence of alcohol when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pedestrians-hit-westinghouse-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit a teacher and student outside of the Westinghouse Academy last fall.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last October, a 12-year-old boy and a woman were hit on a sidewalk outside of the school after a driver jumped the curb in the area of North Murtland Street and Monticello Street in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Homewood West neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said at the time that the boy had traumatic injuries to his lower body and that the woman was in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman who was driving stayed at the scene and was cooperative, but the early investigation appeared to show that alcohol played a role in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police have now confirmed that Nickeya Mitchell was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash, adding that officers say open containers of alcohol in her SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said that Mitchell admitted to having one drink, showed signs of intoxication during a field sobriety test, and registered a 0.15% on a breathalyzer test.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that Mitchell also admitted to not wearing glasses or contact lenses despite needing them.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell told police she swerved to avoid hitting a truck coming down the street and accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police said that a woman was driving under the influence of alcohol when she hit a teacher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52618,73,75,74,745],"class_list":["post-109848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-dui-crash","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}