{"id":308796,"date":"2026-10-17T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308796\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:10:09","slug":"fatal-crash-shuts-down-part-of-mcknight-road-in-ross-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308796\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash shuts down part of McKnight Road in Ross Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Township police are investigating a fatal crash on McKnight Road.<\/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\/10\/1792253409_944_415a6457-ba77-48de-8add-baa7b3ef4953_1705094482.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Yazmin Rodriguez\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Ross Township police say McKnight Road is closed from the Interstate 79 exit to Babcock Boulevard due to a fatal motor vehicle crash. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Police say the crash happened a little after 6 a.m. Saturday. Officers found a single vehicle on its roof on McKnight Road northbound between Stevens Drive and Brookview Lane. The driver was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Emergency officials are urging drivers to seek alternate routes. Drivers accessing McKnight Road from I-79 can take the Perrysville exit. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Ross Police Crash Reconstructions as well as detectives responded and are investigating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross Township police are investigating a fatal crash on McKnight Road. Ross Township police say McKnight Road is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3607,126516,347,1245,126517,6977,126518,126514,42502,460,4042,6016,73,75,74,126513,14637,3172,62668,126515],"class_list":["post-308796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alternate-route","tag-brookview-lane","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-emergency-official","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fatal-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-i-79-exit","tag-mcknight-road","tag-morning","tag-officer","tag-part","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-road-shut-down","tag-roof","tag-ross-township","tag-single-vehicle","tag-stevens-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308796","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=308796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}