Pitt graduate dies in car crash

A Pitt graduate was pronounced dead following a car crash in Bethel Park Monday.

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said that Peter Mastracci, 25, of Bethel Park was pronounced dead at 3:24 p.m after his vehicle crashed near the intersection of Overhill Drive and Old Connor Road.

An investigator at the medical examiner’s office said that she would not know the cause of death until Tuesday evening, when she expected the autopsy of Mastracci’s remains to be complete.

Records indicate Mastracci attended Pitt from the spring semester of 2006 until the spring of 2010, according to Pitt spokesman John Fedele. Mastracci graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in communication and English writing.

An employee at the Bethel Park Police Department who answered the phone Tuesday said the department would not release additional information about the accident.

The investigator at the medical examiner’s office, who declined to give her name, said that Mastracci was the sole occupant of the vehicle involved in the crash.