{"id":60530,"date":"2025-12-14T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60530\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:48:09","slug":"weather-responsible-for-crash-in-pittsburghs-polish-hill-that-left-man-trapped-police-say-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60530\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather responsible for crash in Pittsburgh\u2019s Polish Hill that left man trapped, police say \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Weather was to blame for a crash in Pittsburgh\u2019s Polish Hill neighborhood that left a man trapped, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">An Allegheny County 911 supervisor says emergency crews were called to the intersection of Finland Street and Melwood Avenue just after 6 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 crews saw a vehicle on its side and first responders working to rescue a man from inside. He was put onto a stretcher and taken away by an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A police officer on scene told Channel 11 that the crash was weather-related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Michael Zorn, who lives nearby, said he and a neighbor had just finished helping another vehicle that got stuck when the other vehicle got into trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI was shoveling towards him to get him out, but he ended up sliding more, letting go of the brakes or something, but he ended up flipping the car, and we just kind of shoveled around him till everybody showed up,\u201d Zorn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The man appeared to be in OK condition but was trapped and needed to be rescued from the vehicle, Zorn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Weather was to blame for a crash in Pittsburgh\u2019s Polish Hill neighborhood that left a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1874,2440,11855,347,6111,2443,32798,32792,73,75,74,15331,14832,32794,32793,26386,32797,32795,32796,6740,32799,1133,9653],"class_list":["post-60530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-accident","tag-ambulance","tag-conditions","tag-crash","tag-hospital","tag-ice","tag-icy","tag-overturn","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-polish-hill","tag-roads","tag-roll","tag-roll-over","tag-rollover","tag-shovel","tag-slide","tag-slippery","tag-storm","tag-stretcher","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60530","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=60530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}