PITTSBURGH — Traffic was brought to a standstill Wednesday evening inside the outbound lanes of Pittsburgh’s Liberty Tunnel due to an accident.
Images from Twitter users showed people standing outside their vehicles waiting for the accident to be cleared. At least one driver tweeted around 7:30 p.m. that she had been stuck for half an hour.
Bad accident at the end of Liberty Tunnel outbound @wpxi pic.twitter.com/qxVCa3Oe0A
— André Costello (@andre_costello) January 12, 2017
#libertytunnel pic.twitter.com/4iOFWyvXnY
— André Costello (@andre_costello) January 12, 2017
"I've been here 15 years and I've never seen an accident that bad inside there," said Scott Johnson, PennDOT's Liberty Tunnel manager.
Johnson told Channel 11 News that four vehicle were involved in the accident, but there were no reported injuries.
"The guy in the Dart can't believe he walked away because he had just dropped his wife off, and of course she would have been injured because the passenger side. It went right underneath," Dewey Ianuzzo of Tag Towing said.
WPXI's Marlisa Goldsmith reported that the lanes were reopened just after 8 p.m.
The tunnel has been reopened and traffic is flowing again. #WPXI pic.twitter.com/E0EnoUAlTC
— Marlisa Goldsmith (@MarlisaTV) January 12, 2017
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