{"id":65606,"date":"2025-12-19T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65606\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:50:07","slug":"teenager-dies-after-being-hit-by-sliding-vehicle-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65606\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies after being hit by sliding vehicle in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA teenager has died after being hit by a vehicle in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Carrick neighborhood, officials confirmed to Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4.According to officials, the crash happened around 2:50 p.m. near Brownsville Road and Woodford Avenue. Police say the vehicle was driving down Brownsville Road when it began to slide, hitting a pole.That vehicle then continued to slide before hitting a 17-year-old girl who was standing on the sidewalk.The teenager was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but was later pronounced dead. Officials say the driver remained on the scene. An investigation is ongoing.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A teenager has died after being hit by a vehicle in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Carrick neighborhood, officials confirmed to Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the crash happened around 2:50 p.m. near Brownsville Road and Woodford Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the vehicle was driving down Brownsville Road when it began to slide, hitting a pole.<\/p>\n<p>That vehicle then continued to slide before hitting a 17-year-old girl who was standing on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say the driver remained on the scene. An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has died after being hit by a vehicle in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Carrick neighborhood, officials confirmed to Pittsburgh&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34969,22874,6982,34970,1246,34971,73,75,74,3628,34972,34973,34974,34975,34903],"class_list":{"0":"post-65606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-17-year-old-girl","9":"tag-brownsville-road","10":"tag-carrick","11":"tag-driver-remained-on-scene","12":"tag-fatality","13":"tag-pedestrian-struck","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","16":"tag-pittsburgh-news","17":"tag-police-investigation","18":"tag-sidewalk-collision","19":"tag-sliding-vehicle","20":"tag-struck-pole","21":"tag-teenager-hit-by-vehicle","22":"tag-woodford-avenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65606","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=65606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}