{"id":251009,"date":"2026-07-24T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251009\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:01:12","slug":"teenager-killed-in-late-night-pedestrian-crash-on-busy-pittsburgh-area-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251009\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager killed in late-night pedestrian crash on busy Pittsburgh-area road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McKnight Road was shut down for a few hours on Thursday night due to a deadly pedestrian crash that left one teenager dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just before 10 p.m., the portion of McKnight Road in Ross Township was shut down due to the crash. The crash happened between Seibert Road and Patrick Place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mcknightroadcrash.png#.png\" alt=\"mcknightroadcrash.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                KDKA<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the crash, one person had to be rushed to a nearby hospital, where they ultimately died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later identified as 15-year-old Michael Wade of Brighton Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, KDKA-TV crews on the scene did see at least one person being taken away in a police car, but it is not yet known why they were being taken away by police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have reached out to local police to determine if any charges are forthcoming as a result of the deadly crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McKnight Road was shut down for a few hours on Thursday night due to a deadly pedestrian crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6977,42502,7932,73,75,74,3172],"class_list":["post-251009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fatal-crash","tag-mcknight-road","tag-pedestrian-killed","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-ross-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251009","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=251009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}