Icy, untreated roads, vehicle accidents leave local residents frustrated

OVERBROOK, Pa. (KDKA) – The initial real blast of wintertime listed here in Pittsburgh brought with it snow, ice, and freezing temperatures. All these features blended to make for some treacherous street situations.

An uncomfortable wintertime shock greeted many motorists in Pittsburgh generating a tricky working day throughout the city.

Just before most residents started waking up here in Pittsburgh, the metropolis resembled an idyllic place you may possibly see in a Hallmark Christmas movie. But sometime close to 8 a.m., when people started hitting the streets, this Currier and Ives picture of Pittsburgh was shattered.

Multiple crashes accrued in just minutes of one an additional on numerous distinctive space roadways. In one particular accident, a lot more than six autos smashed into each individual other leaving various automobiles totaled. Fortunately, no just one was injured.

Down the street at a area gas station, numerous other automobiles were being towed to security after sliding off the road. And up the hill in Brookline, this neighborhood lost electricity when a motor vehicle crashed into a utility pole.

The cause of all this chaos: icy and untreated roadways.

Seemingly no put in the city experienced it worse than the community of Overbrook, the place citizens witnessed many automobile crashes on this hilly road, one particular right after yet another all morning long.

“Automobiles [were] just crashing almost everywhere and it truly is been a sheet of ice considering the fact that this morning,” claimed Megan Young, an Overbrook resident.

“This is the principal highway. Men and women appear by way of in this article all the time. We connect to Route 51, so it is absurd that there are autos in people’s yards by means of fences,” Joe Baumiller reported, one more involved Overbrook resident. “This is what I have been watching all morning. So, it can be much better than Television set, and I have coffee.”

“Car or truck in my entrance lawn. The humorous story is, there was a large tree on the corner there past calendar year. It fell. Whipped my fence out. Now, I obtained to substitute my fence yet again,” resident Nate Arnett reported.

In minutes of arriving on the scene, KDKA witnessed numerous much more spinouts and at the very least two additional fender benders to include to the staggering quantity of crashes that experienced now transpired. It was not until eventually some 30 minutes afterwards that a Pittsburgh law enforcement officer and a tow truck arrived to assist, but unfortunately there was not a salt truck to be found.

Residents reported this transpires just about every year but should not.

“We see this every year. They never address the hill at all. I indicate, in some cases we could see it all around nine or 10, we may see a little something, but it is extremely rare,” Youthful added.

“Ed Gainey can arrive to my residence. I have espresso for you. And you can sit on the porch and like check out all of this happening because this is absurd,” Baumiller included.

As neighbors get started to clean up up soon after this horrible morning, one particular matter is for positive, if the basic safety problems are not tackled in neighborhoods like this, it will be a very long and incredibly cold wintertime for positive.