Woman falls with infant on icy road, both taken to hospital

PITTSBURGH — Channel 11 found roads that looked like sheets of ice in Pittsburgh.

One street in Perry South was so slick that a woman fell and an ambulance had to take her to a hospital.

The woman was holding a baby when she fell.

Most main roads are clear while many neighborhood roads are causing problems for drivers, hours after any precipitation fell.

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"All of a sudden, she went down and the baby went down. She was just trying to save the baby," Deborah Richardson said. Her daughter was trying to cross Chautauqua Street in Perry South on Monday evening when she slipped on ice.

An ambulance took the woman and her infant to a hospital to be checked out.

"Hopeless. I didn't know what to do so I went back to my car and got her blankets because she said, 'Mom, I can't move my legs. My leg is probably broken,'" Richardson said.

Just a few blocks away on Cutler Street, our crew found a family stuck on the hill, their car no match for the ice-covered road.

Pittsburgh's Snow Plow Tracker shows a dozen salt trucks on the roads, but the city warns it can take up to 24 hours after the last snowfall before trucks can reach each neighborhood.

"She wanted to enjoy herself with her family and now she's in the hospital," Richardson said.

Plows and salt trucks are expected to continue working through the night hitting secondary roads.

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