Woman dead after car goes over hillside, crashes into garage in Lincoln-Lemington

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PITTSBURGH — A woman is dead after a car went over a hillside and crashed into a garage in Lincoln-Lemington on Monday afternoon.

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The car landed upside down on its roof on top of an abandoned garage in the 1200 block of Lincoln Avenue around 3 p.m.

The woman driving the car was pronounced dead at the scene.

Wednesday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the woman as Aileena Louise Davis, 33, of Pittsburgh.

Amber Sloan lives a few doors down from where the crash happened.

“It’s very sad because I know that’s going to be somebody I know,” she said.

Police said the car was coming down Lincoln Avenue when it veered off into the parking lot of the Sweet Tooth Ice Cream Shop. It then crossed over Apple Street and hit a low barrier before becoming airborne crashing through a fence and tree.

The car flipped over and landed on an old garage down the hill about 40 feet down.

Sloan said she heard the crash and ran out of her house.

“It was a quick, like boom, but it wasn’t a blowup boom, but like an engine,” she said. “A boom; a drop; then you heard sirens.”

It took crews nearly three hours to carefully remove the car from the garage. It was pulled up using a tow truck’s crane just before 6 p.m.

City officials said pulling the car up from the hill was a tricky and complicated process. The garage it was on top of was abandoned and caving in.

“Crews were initially trying to retrieve the victim from the vehicle and their feet were falling through the ceiling of the structure, so it was not safe for the crews to be on or near that structure,” said Emily Bourne, the public information officer with Pittsburgh Public Safety.

That car is now a mangled heap of metal.

This isn’t the first deadly crash on Lincoln Avenue. In June, a 75-year-old man died after his car went over the hillside.

Now, neighbors are calling for safety measures in place, so this doesn’t happen again.

“At what point do we tear these dirty, old, rusted poles down because they’re paper-thin, and put up some type of barriers because too many people are passing away,” Sloan said.

Bourne said Davis was the only person inside the car.

It’s unclear if she was speeding. Bourne said that’ll be part of the investigation.

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