(Photo Courtesy of WPXI-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on January 23rd, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aspinwall, PA) Officials state that a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) bus began smoking with passengers on board this morning. According to a PRT spokesperson, a coolant leak caused smoke at the rear of a 75-Ellsworth bus around 10:20 a.m., ten people were on the bus when the smoke began, but it did not appear that the smoke got inside. At the time the bus started smoking, it was on Freeport Road near Western Avenue in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. There were no reported injuries.