{"id":300700,"date":"2026-10-06T08:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300700\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:26:06","slug":"driver-killed-in-route-844-crash-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300700\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in Route 844 crash identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Allegheny County Medical Examiner\u2019s office has identified the driver killed in Thursday night\u2019s crash on Route 844 in Hopewell Township.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Petrush, 77, of Avella, was driving west on the two-lane highway when he crossed the centerline near Linwood Drive and crashed into an eastbound vehicle shortly before midnight, according to the medical examiner and state police.<\/p>\n<p>Petrush may have suffered a heart-related medical emergency before the crash, according to the medical examiner, and his manner of death is listed as accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Petrush\u2019s SUV struck a vehicle driven by a 23-year-old man, whose name and condition have not been released. State police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allegheny County Medical Examiner\u2019s office has identified the driver killed in Thursday night\u2019s crash on Route 844&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[182,73,75,74,437],"class_list":["post-300700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-local-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300700","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=300700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}