{"id":297705,"date":"2026-10-01T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297705\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:12:08","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-strikes-motorcyclist-near-pittsburgh-police-hq-ditches-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297705\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver strikes motorcyclist near Pittsburgh police HQ, ditches car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist was hospitalized late Tuesday after being hit by a car on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled from the scene, abandoning the vehicle nearby. <\/p>\n<p>The hit-and-run occurred just feet from the police bureau\u2019s Western Avenue headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh police officers and paramedics were dispatched around 9:30 p.m. for the crash at the intersection of Western Avenue and Fontella Street, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They found the motorcyclist, who police have not named, on the ground and unconscious, Cruz said. He regained consciousness at the scene and paramedics took him to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. Cruz said plainclothes detectives are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist was hospitalized late Tuesday after being hit by a car on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side. The driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-297705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297705","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=297705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}