{"id":126768,"date":"2026-03-01T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:14:17","slug":"fiery-crash-shuts-down-liberty-bridge-early-on-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126768\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery crash shuts down Liberty Bridge early on Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after a fiery and deadly three-car crash on the Liberty Bridge early on Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Pittsburgh Police, one of the vehicles caught fire with three people inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to extinguish the flames and rescue two people from the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the third person inside was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the two people rescued from the flames, one did not need treatment, but the other had to be taken to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their specific condition was not made available, but police said they expect them to be OK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Police Accident Investigation Unit is reviewing what led up to the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a fiery and deadly three-car crash on the Liberty Bridge early on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6977,55648,73,75,74,745],"class_list":["post-126768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fatal-crash","tag-liberty-bridge","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\/126768","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=126768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}