{"id":92939,"date":"2026-01-21T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:49:06","slug":"winter-weather-conditions-likely-caused-crash-that-killed-teen-girl-in-carrick-officials-say-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92939\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather conditions likely caused crash that killed teen girl in Carrick, officials say \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Winter weather conditions likely caused a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/child-hit-by-car-pittsburghs-carrick-neighborhood\/33J33SXURBHEDH4XUQ5TXOSSE4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/child-hit-by-car-pittsburghs-carrick-neighborhood\/33J33SXURBHEDH4XUQ5TXOSSE4\/\">crash that killed a teen girl<\/a> in Pittsburgh\u2019s Carrick neighborhood, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/carrick-community-holds-vigil-high-school-senior-hit-killed-by-vehicle\/BGZ7BYC2XBDHFOGGHLJUZBQ6WM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/carrick-community-holds-vigil-high-school-senior-hit-killed-by-vehicle\/BGZ7BYC2XBDHFOGGHLJUZBQ6WM\/\">Ishara Kami<\/a>, 17, was walking home from school along Brownsville Road when she was hit by a truck on Dec. 19. Medics took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the City of Pittsburgh said an instantaneous snow and ice storm caused poor visibility and roadway conditions at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Those conditions likely caused the driver to lose control of his vehicle, which slid down the road and onto the sidewalk, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators performed a site visit at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Woordford Avenue and developed two action items:<\/p>\n<p>Carrick High School will continue to provide trauma-informed care to community members and students, alongside the Center for Victims.In 2027, Brownsville Road will receive corridor improvements, including curb extensions at West Woodford Avenue.<\/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\">\u00a92026 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 Winter weather conditions likely caused a crash that killed a teen girl in Pittsburgh\u2019s Carrick neighborhood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45755,1540,6982,45756,45751,45760,45752,45757,45758,45753,10454,73,45754,75,74,45759],"class_list":["post-92939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-brownsville-road-crash","tag-car-crash","tag-carrick","tag-carrick-car-crash","tag-carrick-crash","tag-carrick-high-school-student","tag-girl-hit-by-car","tag-girl-hit-by-car-in-carrick","tag-girl-hit-by-car-in-pittsburgh","tag-girl-hti-by-truck","tag-killed","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-crash","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-teen-girl-hit-by-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92939","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=92939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}