A box truck, a pickup truck, and an SUV collided Wednesday at the intersection of Lebanon Church Road and Century Drive in West Mifflin, with injuries reported. The SUV had to be hauled away by a tow truck, and the scene was captured from overhead by Sky 4 as crews worked to clear the roadway.
Details remain limited in what is still a developing story, according to WTAE, which reported that the crash happened Wednesday afternoon. The outlet has not specified how the three vehicles came together at the intersection, nor has it detailed the extent of the injuries reported at the scene.
A Corridor Already Under Strain
A Corridor Already Under Strain Whatever caused Wednesday’s crash, it landed on a stretch of roadway that has been anything but calm lately. Just a day earlier, PennDOT District 11 began round-the-clock ramp closures at the Route 51 interchange along Lebanon Church Road, part of reconstruction work running through October 15, as reported by WPXI. Those closures sit within a much larger effort — PennDOT’s active $28.16 million betterment project widening and repaving Route 2040, which covers Lebanon Church Road and Curry Hollow Road across West Mifflin, Pleasant Hills, Baldwin, and South Park Township through summer 2027.
Layered on top of that, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has kept single-lane restrictions in place along Lebanon Church Road and Camp Hollow Road near the Allegheny County Airport since summer 2026, tied to Section 53A2 construction on the Mon/Fayette Expressway. And the corridor has been absorbing extra traffic since April 2025, when West Mifflin Borough permanently closed the private access road that once routed vehicles around the vacant Century III Mall between Clairton Road and Route 51, a shutdown the borough announced through WPXI.
A Road With a Troubled Recent Past
Lebanon Church Road has seen tragedy before. In July, Hoodline reported on a fatal crash nearby at Lebanon Church Road and Buttermilk Hollow Road that killed one person, a case that later resulted in homicide-by-vehicle and DUI charges against a driver authorities said was traveling 91 mph in a stolen truck, according to the same reporting. That earlier wreck, like Wednesday’s, unfolded on the same congested corridor now squeezed by overlapping construction projects…