PITTSBURGH — An elderly woman is in critical condition after being hit by a U-Haul truck in a Pittsburgh neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened at the intersection of Brushton Avenue and Hamilton Avenue in Homewood around 2:30 p.m.
The U-Haul truck fled the scene and was later recovered on Clark Street in Wilkinsburg.
A Pittsburgh police spokesperson says the woman is in critical condition.
The spokesperson says that, according to the preliminary investigation, the male U-Haul driver possibly ran a red light and crashed into a silver Nissan SUV. The woman got out of her vehicle to speak with him. She was hit by the U-Haul when the driver took off from the intersection.
A passenger in the woman’s SUV was taken to a hospital for evaluation out of precaution. His current condition is not known.
License plate readers tracked the U-Haul to Wilkinsburg, where officers found it on Clark Street. Neighbors tell us the U-Haul was speeding through the neighborhood and blowing through stop signs before parking in a driveway. The man who lives at the home took his truck and blocked the U-haul in, then the man driving it ran into the nearby woods.
“I was in my window getting ready to water my plants and I could hear something large burrowing up the street, and I saw the U-Haul just flying up here,” said Valeria Sloan, a neighbor. “He flew up and went all the way back there behind the house to the driveway and he seen there was no way to get out, so he came back around and as he was doing that the owner of the house came and that’s how he stopped there because the owner prevented him from leaving.”
Investigators were taking pictures of some damage to the U-Haul’s back bumper before it was towed away as evidence.
Police are still searching for the suspect and working to determine if he hit the woman intentionally.
In a statement, Jeff Lockridge, a spokesperson for U-Haul International, said, “Our teams are aware of the situation and are working with police to meet any investigative needs they have. As this is an active case, any information related to today’s events will need to come from law enforcement officials.”
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