Car accident on Forbes Ave. leaves woman with broken arm

A collision involving two vehicles on Forbes Avenue sent a 19-year-old woman in a wheelchair to… A collision involving two vehicles on Forbes Avenue sent a 19-year-old woman in a wheelchair to the hospital with a broken arm Thursday afternoon.

The woman involved in the accident is not a Pitt student, Pitt spokesman John Fedele said.

City police Sgt. Ryan Elledge said on Friday that a white vehicle traveling in the left lane on Forbes Avenue swerved, causing a tan vehicle in the right lane to travel onto the sidewalk next to Schenley Plaza.

He said the police report stated that the tan vehicle traveled onto the sidewalk, hit the woman and pushed her forward 150 feet before coming to a stop.

“The wheelchair was well within the sidewalk,” Pittsburgh police Sgt. James Vogel said at the scene on Thursday.

The woman sustained a “severe broken arm,” Elledge said.

Shawn Pierce was managing the Entertainment Your Way stand on the sidewalk on the corner of Schenley Drive and Forbes Avenue and witnessed the accident.

“Everyone else was able to move, but the woman in the wheelchair — she didn’t have a chance,” Pierce said.