Three people were hospitalized \u2014 one of them in critical condition \u2014 after a City of Pittsburgh garbage truck hit a sedan on the Tri-Boro Expressway in Turtle Creek, causing a four-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The garbage truck was driving eastbound on the expressway in Turtle Creek around 12:30 p.m. when it hit the rear of a Mitsubishi sedan that was stopped at a red light, Allegheny County Police said.<\/p>\n
Police said the truck, described by police as a dump truck, then continued through the expressway\u2019s intersection with Grant Street, striking a Chevrolet pickup before overturning on its side.<\/p>\n
A tire was knocked off the Chevy and struck an unoccupied Turtle Creek police cruiser, police said.<\/p>\n
First responders went to the 100 block of Monroeville Avenue and found three people in the vehicles, police said. One person was taken taken to the hospital in critical condition; the other two were transported in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Detectives from the county police homicide squad are investigating.<\/p>\n
Molly Onufer, a spokesman for Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor, said the garbage truck might have been in Turtle Creek because that is a route city trucks take to the landfill.<\/p>\n
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