{"id":268973,"date":"2026-08-20T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268973\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:50:17","slug":"tree-crashes-onto-car-on-parkway-east-near-wilkinsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268973\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree crashes onto car on Parkway East near Wilkinsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tree crashes onto car on Parkway East in Pittsburgh, smashing windshield in heavy rain<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Crews shut down a lane on the inbound side of Parkway East after a tree fell onto a car during Thursday&#8217;s heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Officials were on the scene near the Britton Road overpass after a tree smashed the windshield of a vehicle. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The incident has led to major backups between Wilkinsburg and Edgewood\/Swissvale. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Drivers are urged to find alternate routes if possible.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tree crashes onto car on Parkway East in Pittsburgh, smashing windshield in heavy rain PITTSBURGH \u2014 Crews shut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2663,16976,13706,61365,78128,139,6439,1730,113360,73,75,74,10939,3522,5382,113361,113359,6967,868,50012,10254],"class_list":["post-268973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-car","tag-edgewood","tag-heavy-rain","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-major-backup","tag-news","tag-official","tag-parkway-east","tag-parkway-east-car-crash-tree","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-swissvale","tag-thursday","tag-tree","tag-tree-limbs-onto-car","tag-tree-onto-car","tag-vehicle","tag-wilkinsburg","tag-windshield","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268973","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=268973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}