Passenger taken to hospital after two-car crash

Paramedics took a passenger to the hospital after a two-vehicle accident on Pitt’s campus Monday night.

A red Subaru Forester struck the rear passenger side of a silver Chevrolet Malibu at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard around 10:45 p.m.

Following the accident, the female passenger of the Subaru sat on the curb, clutching the driver’s legs while he gave a statement to Officer Harrison Maddox of the Pittsburgh Police Department, who arrived within minutes of the accident.

By 11:10 p.m., City Paramedics had moved the woman into an ambulance and left for the hospital.

As Maddox took the driver’s statement, employees from the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works swept up shattered headlights and other debris from the front of the Subaru, whose airbags sagged to the floor in the front of the car as the vehicle was parked across two lanes of Fifth Avenue.

By 11:45 p.m., the Subaru had been towed. The vehicle’s driver left the scene of the accident before he could answer questions.

Louis Young, a supervisor for U.S. Security Associates who was driving the Chevrolet, said he was uninjured.

Maddox declined to provide additional information about the accident or who may have been at fault.