Second person dies from car crash in Washington
A second person involved in last month’s two-car crash on West Maiden Street in Washington has died.
Rita Haggerty, 76, of South Franklin, died Thursday morning at UPMC-Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh where she was being treated for injuries suffered in a head-on collision Aug. 25, according to the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office.
The medical examiner’s office ruled Haggerty died of blunt force trauma to her neck, trunk and extremities.
Haggerty was riding in a car driven by Patrick Haggerty Sr. 82, also of South Franklin, when he crossed the centerline and crashed into a car driven by Andrea Sharp, 18, of Washington, near Jefferson Avenue, city police said. Patrick Haggerty was taken to UPMC-Presbyterian, where he died from blunt force trauma to the trunk Aug. 27, the medical examiner’s office said.
Sharp was taken by ambulance to a Pittsburgh hospital with unspecified injuries.