{"id":266951,"date":"2026-08-17T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266951\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:42:08","slug":"police-find-driver-involved-in-deadly-hit-and-run-crash-in-kennedy-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266951\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find driver involved in deadly hit-and-run crash in Kennedy Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 The vehicle involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-after-being-hit-by-car-kennedy-township-police-searching-vehicle-involved\/5JTIQ3DXDZBVNKZWX5X3YOOCVM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-after-being-hit-by-car-kennedy-township-police-searching-vehicle-involved\/5JTIQ3DXDZBVNKZWX5X3YOOCVM\/\">a deadly hit-and-run crash in Kennedy Township<\/a> last week has been recovered, Allegheny County Police announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At around 12:15 a.m. on Friday, a Kennedy Township Police officer who was on patrol found a man down on the roadway. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Wayne McGinley, 72, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said that the man was hit by a car, which then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Monday morning, police said detectives have recovered the vehicle involved in the incident. The driver has also been identified, but their identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County detectives continue to investigate. <\/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\">\u00a92026 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":"KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 The vehicle involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Kennedy Township last week has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13313,46130,44425,73,75,74,112580,112579],"class_list":["post-266951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-police","tag-hit-and-run-crash","tag-kennedy-township","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-vehicle-recovery","tag-wayne-mcginley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266951","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=266951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}