{"id":310702,"date":"2026-10-20T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310702\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:16:07","slug":"woman-killed-after-being-pinned-by-falling-rock-great-allegheny-passage-trail-in-connellsville-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310702\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed after being pinned by falling rock Great Allegheny Passage trail in Connellsville, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A woman died after being pinned by a falling rock while biking with her husband on the Great Allegheny Passage trail in Connellsville, Fayette County, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Now, part of that trail is closed in Western Pennsylvania, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/falling-rock-kills-florida-bicyclist-on-greater-allegheny-gap-trail\/74168651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WTAE reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say two bicyclists were riding on the trail when the rock fell, pinning them both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A man was able to free himself and was flown by medical helicopter to a hospital, while the woman was trapped underneath the rock and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim has been identified as 79-year-old Gain Luck, of Germantown, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Luck&#8217;s husband was expected to make a full recovery, the coroner&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is investigating.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A woman died after being pinned by a falling rock while biking with her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127114,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-310702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-127114","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310702","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=310702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}