A man is fighting for his life in critical condition following a harrowing incident where his vehicle smashed into a Pittsburgh parking garage and was engulfed in flames. This grisly scene unfolded yesterday at the Chatham Tower near the city's Bluff neighborhood; the emergency call to first responders came just shy of 7 p.m. as reported by WTAE.
In the chaos that ensued, firefighting teams swooped in, battled the blaze, and extracted the lone driver from the charred remains of the passenger sedan, which had violently collided with the garage structure and subsequently took fire, according to a spokesperson from Pittsburgh Public Safety.
While the unidentified man was promptly rushed to a nearby hospital for the critical injuries he sustained, a pall of smoke and uncertainty lingered at the site of the accident; Channel 11's crews observed the aftermath, the barricade tape making a perimeter around the garage and firefighters in the act of dousing the smoldering vehicle, a sight not far from the bustling area of PPG Paints Arena as detailed by WPXI.
No other victims have been reported. Accident investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the crash and the events leading up to it.
