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<\/p>\nMan dies days after chain-reaction crash involving garbage truck in Turtle Creek<\/p>\n
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Officials confirm one of three people injured in a chain-reaction crash involving a garbage truck in Allegheny County has died. <\/p>\n
VIDEO ABOVE: Our previous coverage of the crash.<\/p>\n
Jordan D. Patrick, 30, died on Monday after Thursday’s crash at the 100 block of Monroeville Avenue in Turtle Creek. <\/p>\n
Firefighters and emergency responders were called to Monroeville Avenue in Turtle Creek at 12:28 p.m. Thursday for the crash that involved multiple vehicles. <\/p>\n
Aerial video from Sky 4, Pittsburgh’s only news chopper, captured a City of Pittsburgh garbage truck on its side, with its contents strewn across the road.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n According to Allegheny County police, the garbage truck was heading east on Tri-Boro Expressway when it hit a car that was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Grant Street.<\/p>\n Police said the garbage truck continued through the intersection, where it hit a pickup truck, and the garbage truck overturned.<\/p>\n A tire from the pickup truck hit a Turtle Creek police car that was unoccupied, police said.<\/p>\n Patrick was taken to the hospital where he later died. Two other people were also injured. We do not have an update on their injuries. <\/p>\n A woman who was shopping nearby said, “I heard a real bad, big bang, and it sounded like an explosion, so I looked out to see what it was. I just see a big poof of smoke, big cloud of smoke. I mean, really high.”<\/p>\n She also said, “Prayers to families and friends that are all involved in this accident, and I’m so sorry.”<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man dies days after chain-reaction crash involving garbage truck in Turtle Creek Officials confirm one of three people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,114978,894,347,114975,4329,12285,21293,8631,813,12879,6111,21295,8972,1399,18637,114972,2092,5976,57842,28,523,1358,488,73,13351,75,74,206,6014,68310,114974,3571,23115,114979,6664,78067,114977,114976,114973,2222,8373,420],"class_list":["post-276630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-aerial-video","tag-allegheny-county","tag-crash","tag-damaged-suv","tag-day","tag-emergency-responder","tag-emergency-responders","tag-firefighter","tag-firefighters","tag-garbage-truck","tag-hospital","tag-hospitalized","tag-intersection","tag-man","tag-monroeville","tag-monroeville-avenue","tag-more-news","tag-multi-vehicle-crash","tag-multiple-vehicle","tag-pennsylvania","tag-people","tag-person","tag-pickup-truck","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-action-news-4","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-road","tag-road-accident","tag-sideways-truck","tag-sky","tag-sky-4","tag-smashed-front-end","tag-smoke","tag-suv-crash","tag-trash-spill","tag-tree-and-pole","tag-truck-overturns","tag-turtle-creek","tag-vehicle-crash","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276630","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=276630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}