Crime & Safety

Female Driver Ejected from Vehicle After Severing Utility Pole on Becks Run Road

Driver taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital.

A female driver on Becks Run Road in crashed into at least two utility poles – severing one completely – near the intersection of Bajo Street early Tuesday morning, March 15, at approximately 2:30 a.m.

The driver suffered serious injuries and was taken by to UPMC Mercy Hospital. There is no word on her condition as of 10 a.m. on Tuesday, but Baldwin EMS Chief William E. Plunkett said, "We transported her as a serious patient based on the mechanism of injury ... She was ejected from the vehicle. We found her outside of the vehicle."

The vehicle suffered major damage, as it eventually settled on its roof.

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Plunkett said that he is not certain if the driver was wearing a seat belt.

"I do not know," he said. "My guess is that, given that she was ejected, she was not. That's just me surmising. People that are seat-belted don't get ejected, so I think it's pretty safe to say she was not wearing a seat belt."

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The  is reporting that the Allegheny County Police Department is handling an investigation of the accident.

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