{"id":131209,"date":"2026-03-06T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131209\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:19:08","slug":"person-hit-killed-along-william-penn-highway-in-wilkins-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131209\/","title":{"rendered":"Person hit, killed along William Penn Highway in Wilkins Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a deadly pedestrian crash along William Penn Highway in Wilkins Township.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were called to the area of William Penn Highway near Kingston Drive just after 4:30 a.m. on Friday, according to dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>Allegheny County Police confirmed to KDKA that detectives were requested to the scene to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot-2026-03-06-052714-720.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-03-06-052714-720.png \" height=\"363\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A person was hit and killed along William Penn Highway in Wilkins Township on Friday, March 6, 2026.Allegheny County Police detectives are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Dan Vojtko<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the highway were shut down for several hours while first responders were on scene and while police were investigating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this time what led up to the crash and the person who was killed has not been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a deadly pedestrian crash along William Penn Highway in Wilkins Township. First responders were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,6977,7932,34971,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-131209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pedestrian-killed","tag-pedestrian-struck","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131209","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=131209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}