State police held a news conference Friday morning pertaining to a deadly crash that began on the Parkway East.
The woman who died when her Ford Explorer went off the outbound Parkway East, near Second Avenue, has been identified as 31-year-old Jacinta Stevens of Pittsburgh's West End.
Troopers say Stevens lost control of the vehicle, struck a snowbank, went over a concrete carrier and fell about 120 feet into the Monongahela River.
Sevens as rescued at the scene and transported to a local hospital where she later died.
During the news conference, Trooper Rocco Gagliardi says they’re asking for help after they only received one 911 call following the crash.
“There’s a lot of still-moving components,” said Gagliardi. “Because we only had that one main call, we are kind of urging the public, if anyone was in that area, they saw this Explorer traveling (Interstate) 376 and, maybe they were behind it, they were in front of it, they saw something wrong with the operator, they saw issues with the road during that time of 5 o’clock to 5:30 you need to call into PSP Pittsburgh, we ant to get more information to solve this case as a whole in the next couple of days.”
Gagliardi says they are looking at all possibilities, seeing if they driver was impaired in any way, if weather played a factor, etc.
Authorities say Stevens was the only person inside the car and confirm no other vehicles were involved.
Crews are still working to remove the Explorer from the river.
You can call State Police at 412-299-1607 if you have any information.