{"id":280382,"date":"2026-09-06T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280382\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:58:09","slug":"one-dead-after-overnight-ft-pitt-tunnel-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280382\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after overnight Ft. Pitt tunnel crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 dead after overnight Fort Pitt Tunnel crash<\/p>\n<p>State police say the crash inside the tunnel happened after midnight; one person has died <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/415a6457-ba77-48de-8add-baa7b3ef4953\" aria-label=\"Yazmin Rodriguez profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788710289_165_415a6457-ba77-48de-8add-baa7b3ef4953_1705094482.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Yazmin Rodriguez\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Pennsylvania State Police say one person is dead after a crash inside the Fort Pitt Tunnel. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crash happened around midnight in the eastbound lanes. The tunnel was closed for three hours. State police say an early investigation determined a car was traveling at a high speed when it crashed into the rear end of a commercial vehicle. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">We are still working to learn the identity of the person killed and whether there were any other injuries. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">This is a developing story. Stick with Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 dead after overnight Fort Pitt Tunnel crash State police say the crash inside the tunnel happened after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1874,900,2376,1540,117269,8192,1246,78048,117267,67178,6760,3192,1224,1358,117268,73,75,74,6429,8574,19727,3839],"class_list":["post-280382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-accident","tag-action-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-car-crash","tag-early-investigation","tag-eastbound-lane","tag-fatality","tag-ft","tag-ft-pitt-tunnel","tag-high-rate","tag-hour","tag-midnight","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-person","tag-pitt-tunnel-crash","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-psp","tag-speed","tag-stick","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280382","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=280382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}