Georgia man killed in North Belle Vernon crash
Police say a 35-year-old Georgia man killed Tuesday night was driving the wrong way on Interstate 70 when the vehicle he was driving collided head-on with a tractor-trailer truck in North Belle Vernon, Westmoreland County.
State police Trooper Charles A. Miller said Robert A. Cunningham of Athens was pronounced dead at the scene by officials from the Westmoreland County coroner’s office.
According to Miller, the crash occurred shortly after 8 p.m., when a vehicle driven by Cunningham traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes on I-70 collided with a rig traveling westbound and driven by Grygoriy Puzhnyak of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Miller said the collision caused Cunningham’s vehicle to overturn and land on the median, where it impacted a third vehicle driven by Thomas Baldwin of Hull, Ill., who escaped injury.
Miller said Puzhnyak and a passenger in his vehicle, Bogdan Grebinnyk of Elmhurst, N.Y., each suffered injuries in the crash and were taken by Rostraver/West Newton EMS to Monongahela Valley Hospital in Carroll Township.
State police were assisted at the scene by North Belle Vernon police, Rostraver Township police and volunteer firefighters from Rostraver, North Belle Vernon and Belle Vernon.