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<\/a>WHITAKER, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\nA car crashed into Bob’s Autotorium convenience store near Rankin Bridge early Wednesday morning, driving through multiple rock barriers and leaving behind substantial damage.<\/p>\n
The store was closed and nobody was inside at the time of the crash. State police said the driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The crash happened shortly before 6 a.m. on River Road near the bridge, an area that has experienced similar incidents in previous years.<\/p>\n
“I be nervous every day because I know cars be flying across this bridge,” said Melicia Chapman, whose wife works at the store.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n Chapman came upon the scene while searching for her wife, who had not been answering her phone.<\/p>\n “I’m real concerned she’s not answering her phone or nothing, so I just happened to come past to see if everything was OK,” Chapman said.<\/p>\n State police said the driver was heading south when she accelerated into the retaining rock walls and then directly into the building, causing significant damage.<\/p>\n “This is heartbreaking because they just got pump number 5 fixed a couple months ago,” Chapman said.<\/p>\n This location has seen similar incidents in the past. In 2024, surveillance footage captured a truck flipping over and narrowly missing a passing car.<\/p>\n After this latest crash, crews removed the car from the building, and workers immediately began cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n “Bob is a great guy,” Chapman said. “Poor Bob, he’s always fixing this gas station up. It’s his livelihood.”<\/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":"Car crashes into Bob’s Autotorium near Rankin Bridge, causing major damage WHITAKER, Pa. \u2014 A car crashed into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,37884,894,116252,116256,1085,116254,1540,15486,40204,12285,21293,15217,59757,6111,21295,28,1358,73,75,74,5996,63161,63998,2581,12927,116253,116255,6967,8373,116257,10254],"class_list":["post-277514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-action-news-4","tag-allegheny-county","tag-bobs-autotorium","tag-broken-storefront","tag-building","tag-building-damage","tag-car-crash","tag-convenience-store","tag-developing-story","tag-emergency-responder","tag-emergency-responders","tag-front","tag-heavy-damage","tag-hospital","tag-hospitalized","tag-pennsylvania","tag-person","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rankin","tag-rankin-bridge","tag-river-road","tag-scene","tag-side","tag-smashes-through","tag-storefront-crash","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicle-crash","tag-vehicle-overturned","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277514","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=277514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}