{"id":21413,"date":"2025-11-01T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21413\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:39:13","slug":"71-year-old-man-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-pittsburghs-oakland-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21413\/","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old man dies after being hit by car in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e9caa57bf56fee52027b4d5dcbee6c01.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 71-year-old man has died after he was hit by a car in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers were dispatched to the intersection of Forbes and Oakland avenues around 4:45 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First responders found a man lying in the road with a head injury. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Public Safety officials said the man died Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver remained on the scene. It\u2019s unknown if they\u2019ll be facing any charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 71-year-old man has died after he was hit by a car in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood. Officers were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12577,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-21413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-oakland-neighborhood","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413","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=21413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}