Minivan crashes through the side of UPMC Shadyside Hospital medical building

(Credit for Photo: Courtesy of KDKA Photojournalist Brian Smithmyer, Caption for Photo: At least one person was hurt when a vehicle slammed through the side of the Shadyside Medical Building at UPMC Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh on Friday, January 16.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A minivan crashed through the side of the Shadyside Medical Building at UPMC Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh early this morning. Dispatchers confirmed to KDKA that the crash happened just before 1:30 a.m. at the medical building along Centre Avenue in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is unclear at this time what led up to the crash and the minivan was removed from the building just before 3 a.m. Dispatchers confirmed that one person was taken to the hospital. According to a UPMC spokesperson, no patient services are expected to be impacted, and the driver of the vehicle is being treated and no one was injured. The investigation into this incident is being handled by UPMC police.