{"id":2442,"date":"2025-10-15T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2442\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:30:06","slug":"woman-fell-into-road-while-chasing-prt-bus-before-being-hit-killed-officials-determine-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2442\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman fell into road while chasing PRT bus before being hit, killed, officials determine \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Officials have revealed what happened before a woman was hit and killed by a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in the city\u2019s Spring Hill neighborhood last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-killed-crash-involving-prt-bus-pittsburghs-spring-hill-neighborhood\/MQJ2KTGTANAXJAE2KIT7OB62SQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-killed-crash-involving-prt-bus-pittsburghs-spring-hill-neighborhood\/MQJ2KTGTANAXJAE2KIT7OB62SQ\/\">Woman dies after being hit by PRT bus in Pittsburgh\u2019s Spring Hill neighborhood<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Sept. 22, a person ran after a bus while it was pulling away from the stop on Rhine Street, city officials said on social media Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The person ran into a signpost and fell into the road, where she was hit by the bus, officials say. She later died of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victim was identified as 50-year-old Dana Fountain of Spring Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Collision investigators did a site visit after the crash and developed these action items:<\/p>\n<p>Working with PRT on a communications plan to educate bus riders on the dangers of chasing the bus.Reinstalling the \u2018STOP\u2019 sign so that it is above the bus stop sign for visibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Officials have revealed what happened before a woman was hit and killed by a Pittsburgh Regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2191,2190,2185,2186,73,2195,75,74,2187,2188,2189,2194,2184,2192,2193],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bus-accident","tag-bus-crash","tag-fall-into-road","tag-hit-by-bus","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-bus","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit","tag-prt-accident","tag-prt-crash","tag-spring-hill-hit-by-bus","tag-woman","tag-woman-hit-by-bus","tag-woman-run-into-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}