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\n Dick Road closed to traffic\n <\/p>\n
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — An adult and a child were both airlifted to Pittsburgh-area hospitals after their vehicle crashed into a tree along Dick Road in Connoquenessing Township on Monday night, Aug. 3.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred shortly after 9 p.m. Monday night near the White Oak Springs Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n
According to Mike Nanna, chief of the Connoquenessing Volunteer Fire Company, only one vehicle was involved in the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a single-vehicle accident into a tree with two occupants,\u201d Nanna said. \u201cBoth are being airlifted downtown (to Pittsburgh).\u201d<\/p>\n
While Nanna could not elaborate on injuries, he stated that they were \u201c…both trauma patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added the Pennsylvania State Police are currently investigating the circumstances of the accident.<\/p>\n
Two ambulances from Butler Ambulance Service took the patients to medical helicopters waiting for them at the Butler Farm Show grounds. VA Butler Fire & Emergency Services also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n
As of 9:45 p.m., Dick Road was closed to vehicle traffic as crews investigatd the accident.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe road\u2019s probably going to be closed for a couple of hours,\u201d Nanna said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dick Road closed to traffic CONNOQUENESSING TWP — An adult and a child were both airlifted to Pittsburgh-area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,73,75,74,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-258836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258836","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=258836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}