{"id":206538,"date":"2026-05-30T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206538\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:20:08","slug":"dirt-bike-rider-killed-in-collision-with-pittsburgh-regional-transit-bus-in-homewood-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206538\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirt bike rider killed in collision with Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Homewood, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dirt bike rider was killed Saturday evening after colliding with a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Homewood neighborhood, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at approximately 5:55 p.m. at the intersection of Brushton and Frankstown avenues.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hjmhagjw8aaod7u.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"hjmhagjw8aaod7u.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A dirt bike rider was killed Saturday evening after colliding with a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Homewood neighborhood, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA-TV&#8217;s Ricky Sayer<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information, an 86-Liberty bus was traveling through the intersection when it was involved in a collision with a dirt bike. EMS personnel pronounced the dirt bike operator dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed to KDKA-TV that the victim is a male, but the identity of the victim has not been made public.<\/p>\n<p>It was not known if anyone aboard the bus was injured in the crash. Officials also told KDKA-TV that city cameras did capture footage of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details about the circumstances of the crash were immediately available as of Saturday evening. The incident remains under investigation by Pittsburgh Regional Transit police.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dirt bike rider was killed Saturday evening after colliding with a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Pittsburgh&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[203,6977,73,75,74,2187],"class_list":["post-206538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-dirt-bike","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206538","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=206538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}