{"id":140768,"date":"2026-03-17T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:43:08","slug":"butler-woman-to-be-charged-in-wrong-way-crash-along-fort-duquesne-bridge-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140768\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler woman to be charged in wrong-way crash along Fort Duquesne Bridge \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a wrong-way crash on the Fort Duquesne Bridge in Pittsburgh, a Butler woman fled on foot, according to state police.<\/p>\n

Lindsay K. Kleeman, 41, of Butler, is to be charged in relation to the Saturday morning, March 14, crash.<\/p>\n

According to police, Kleeman was driving the wrong direction on the Fort Duquesne Bridge on I-279 around 6:30 a.m. when she collided with the vehicles of Chaquan K. Jackie, 33, of Pittsburgh, and Emily E. Beres, 27, of Monaca.<\/p>\n

Police said Beres sustained an injury of unknown severity and was taken to Allegheny General Hospital.<\/p>\n

Kleeman fled and was later apprehended by Pittsburgh police near the 31st Street Bridge. Police said she was taken into custody six to seven hours following the collision.<\/p>\n

In a Sunday crash report, police indicated Kleeman would be charged with a traffic offense, and Jackie would be charged with DUI. Charges were not yet filed Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wrong-way crash on the Fort Duquesne Bridge in Pittsburgh, a Butler woman fled on foot, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,73,75,74,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-140768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140768","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=140768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}