UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Three people were rushed to hospitals after a violent crash on what neighbors say is an accident-prone stretch of road in Unity Township, Westmoreland County.
State police in Greensburg said a pickup truck and a car collided head-on Tuesday night on Donohoe Road, and two 16-year-old girls were trapped in the car.The teenagers were pulled from the wreckage and flown to Pittsburgh hospitals in critical condition.
The driver of the truck, a 23-year-old man, was also hurt but his condition was not immediately available.
Some neighbors told Channel 4 Action News that they think there are too many car accidents on Donohoe and drivers often speed through the area, which connects Greensburg and Latrobe.
"Every other weekend, we hear this," neighbor Melissa Domenick said. "It's a crash either into the guardrails, up into the treeline. This is a horrible area, and they just fly on it."
"They just travel fast on this road," Woodsville Fire Chief Brian Schultheis said.
Safety of neighborhood children is also a concern for some who live near the crash scene.
"It's almost like (Route) 22 -- a death trap since they've paved it and made it wider, especially in the morning with kids getting on the school bus," neighbor Brian Domenick said.
"People fly along here, and they don't even realize that we're residential and there's kids all along here," Melissa Domenick said.Police are still investigating and have not determined if speed was a factor in Tuesday's crash.
Team 4 investigative reporter Jim Parsons went to the crash scene Wednesday afternoon and saw firsthand what neighbors had talked about -- cars going way too fast around the blind curve.
"They're constantly speeding going around the bends, and there's not much side, so people constantly swerving back and forth," neighbor Heidi Lesko said.
"Two cars coming faster than they should this way -- it's blind because you have people coming up the hill there and coming around a real sharp bend there. That's why this particular spot is very dangerous," neighbor Mike Tyson said.State police agreed with neighbors' comments.
"We've had a lot of problems on Donahoe Road," said Trooper Stephen Limani, who described it as a highly traveled shortcut between Greensburg and Latrobe.
"We're going to be more visible, and we're going to be out there enforcing the laws," Limani said.
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