Woman hit by Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus expected to be released from hospital
The woman hit by the driver of a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in the city's Oakland neighborhood on Monday night was expected to be released from the hospital on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for Pittsburgh Regional Transit said the driver of the 58-Greenfield bus was turning left from Neville Street onto Fifth Avenue when they struck a pedestrian in the crosswalk around 7 p.m. on Monday.
The 21-year-old woman was taken to a local hospital in critical but stable condition on Monday night, but she was "up and walking" as of Tuesday morning and expected to be discharged from the hospital at some point, the spokesperson said. Allegheny County 911 said the crash happened around 7 p.m. on Monday.
"I heard very loud guttural screams that were clearly female," Carnegie Mellon University student Hailey Price said on Monday night. "Again, I didn't think anything of it because there is often loud noises in the area around this time of night. Then, a couple of minutes later, I started to hear loud engines, loud sirens."
The bus driver, a 25-year PRT veteran, was taken for drug and alcohol testing and is being held off work pending the results of the full investigation, officials said.
The bus had been traveling from PRT's garage in East Liberty to begin its route near Carnegie Mellon. Following the crash, it was towed back to the garage and quarantined for investigators. Port Authority police are leading the investigation into the crash.
