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Accident into Mon River that killed woman ruled an accident

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KDKA Radio/Timira Rush


You may remember the case of a driver who died after her vehicle plunged into the Mon River along the Parkway in late January.

Now, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office has released the cause and manner of death Tuesday morning.

They say 31-year-old Jacinta Stevens died of blunt impact injuries to the head and neck and they're ruling her death an accident.

PA State Troopers said Stevens lost control of the vehicle, struck a snowbank, went over a concrete carrier and fell about 120 feet into the Monongahela River.

Stevens as rescued at the scene and transported to a local hospital where she later died.

She was the only person in the vehicle at the time of the crash.