Driver of a tractor-trailer hits and kills a male pedestrian in Coraopolis

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Coraopolis, PA) The driver of a tractor-trailer hit a man in Coraopolis yesterday which ended up killing him later that day. A 911 dispatcher confirmed to WPXI that police, fire and medics were called to 5th Avenue and Main Street at 3:10 p.m. yesterday. The man that was killed was a pedestrian who was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash and has not been identified yet. According to Coraopolis Police Chief Jason Stewart, surveillance video shows the tractor-trailer stopped at a red light. The driver pulled into the intersection when the light turned green and hit the man. It is not clear at this time if charges will be given to the driver. This is the second time this month that a hit-and-run crash occurred in Coraopolis, because an unidentified suspect is in ICE custody for killing sixty-one-year-old Ulises Montalvo of Coraopolis on 4th Avenue in Coraopolis near the Citgo gas station there on August 3rd, 2025.