Crews are on the scene of a serious accident on the Rt. 65 ramp to the Fort Duquesne Bridge and on Reedsdale Street on the North Side after a five-vehicle crash Wednesday that claimed the life of two people.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the media, Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando says two people have died in the accident. <\/p>\n
One of the vehicles landed on Reedsale Street, four more cars remained on the ramp. <\/p>\n
The accident has closed the ramp to the Ft. Pitt Bridge and is causing heavy backups. Lando expects the road to be closed for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n
In a release, PennDOT says \u201csouthbound Route 65 is closed to traffic at the ramp to the Fort Duquesne Bridge in the City of Pittsburgh. Though drivers are able to utilize the left-hand lane to northbound Route 28\/north I-279.\u201d<\/p>\n
A vehicle crashed off the Ft. Duquesne Bridge and landed near Reedsdale Street and Tony Dorsett Drive on the North Side.<\/p>\n
No official word of injuries. This is a developing story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are on the scene of a serious accident on the Rt. 65 ramp to the Fort Duquesne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1874,347,3431,73,75,74,82914],"class_list":["post-185734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-accident","tag-crash","tag-penndot","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rt-65"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185734","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=185734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}