{"id":288447,"date":"2026-09-17T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:44:12","slug":"crews-respond-to-accident-involving-garbage-truck-in-the-south-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288447\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews respond to accident involving garbage truck in the South Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews respond to accident involving garbage truck in the South Hills<\/p>\n<p>It happened Thursday morning on Painters Run Road right on the border of Upper St. Clair and Scott Township. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/28388558-8c9d-433f-b3bf-583a3e38ad07\" aria-label=\"Lily Coleman 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\/28388558-8c9d-433f-b3bf-583a3e38ad07_1666643336.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lily Coleman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Emergency crews are on the scene of a crash involving a garbage truck in the city&#8217;s South Hills Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">It happened on Painters Run Road on the border of Scott Township and Upper St. Clair. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">According to emergency crews on scene, a garbage truck crashed into a pole, bringing down wires in the area. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">At this point, it is still unclear if anyone was injured. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Emergency officials are asking people to avoid the area. The delays will likely be in place throughout the morning commute as the crews continue to clean up the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews respond to accident involving garbage truck in the South Hills It happened Thursday morning on Painters Run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1304,1874,2088,33042,2376,79,347,6849,12879,119891,73,75,74,96055,5608,2581,3103,15364,1704,74153,6746,10254],"class_list":["post-288447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-1304","tag-accident","tag-area","tag-border","tag-breaking-news","tag-city","tag-crash","tag-crew","tag-garbage-truck","tag-painters-run-road","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburghs-action-traffic","tag-place","tag-scene","tag-scott-township","tag-south-hills","tag-traffic","tag-upper-st-clair","tag-wire","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288447","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=288447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}