{"id":14078,"date":"2022-07-30T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/2-dead-3-injured-after-head-on-crash-in-fayette-county-wpxi\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T08:06:23","slug":"2-dead-3-injured-after-head-on-crash-in-fayette-county-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=14078","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 3 injured after head-on crash in Fayette County &#8211; WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">GEORGES TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The two people killed in a head-on crash in Fayette County that also injured three others Thursday evening have been identified by Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">According to Fayette County 911, the crash happened at 5:23 pm in the 600 block of Walnut Hill Road in Georges Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">State police said one vehicle was traveling eastbound on Walnut Hill and collided head-on with the second vehicle traveling westbound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">State police said the driver, Tyler Durst, 29, of Point Marion, and Mercedes Mecozzi, 27, of Uniontown, the passenger in the same vehicle, were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">Three people in the second vehicle were injured and left the scene by medical helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">Pennsylvania State Police are investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">Follow the news of Channel 11 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> i <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.  |  Watch WPXI NOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 gAFIWJ image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">Pittsburgh police are warning residents of crimes involving teenagers using USB cables to steal cars <\/span><\/p>\n<p>MAIN STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92022 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/2-people-killed-3-injured-after-2-vehicle-crash-fayette-county\/P5N47TS3PBFLRFLIQDZN5EYEKQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGES TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The two people killed in a head-on crash in Fayette County that also injured three others Thursday evening have been identified by Pennsylvania State Police. According to Fayette County 911, the crash happened at 5:23 pm in the 600 block of Walnut Hill Road in Georges Township. State police said one vehicle was traveling eastbound on Walnut Hill and collided head-on with the second vehicle traveling westbound. State police said the driver, Tyler Durst, 29, of Point Marion, and Mercedes Mecozzi, 27, of Uniontown, the passenger in the same vehicle, were pronounced dead at the scene&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}