Another West Mifflin Roadway Accident Raises Concern in Road’s Safety


Posted on Oct 29, 2008

The Mckeesport Daily News reports that many continue to be concerned about the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue that passes through West Mifflin. A new crash this weekend is one of many that have occurred on this road in the past few months and weeks.

After midnight on Sunday, off-duty McKeesport police officer Tim Conboy, 43, struck a house along the 2500 block of Penn Ave, causing property damage. Alcohol may have been a factor in both the accident and in the officer's apparent suicide later that night after he left the accident scene. A witness said that after the accident, Conboy exited his truck and ran to his home on Sunset Drive, where he lived with his mother. When the police arrived to investigate, they heard the gun shot and found the man dead. Before the incident took place, Conboy's girlfriend reportedly tried to stop the man from driving drunk.

Although alcohol might have played a part in the Penn Ave crash, it is not the first. There have been a disturbing series of wrecks in the area in recent months.

"They fly through there," said borough council Vice President Arlene Jabbour, who lives along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Another resident who lives on the street agreed, although he declined to be named.

"People drive like maniacs along there," he said. "People who drive the speed limit are practically forced off the road."

Many of the accidents are single-vehicle crashes, with Former borough councilman Albert Kopay Jr. witnessing a one-car crash last spring. In that accident, a Jeep Grand Cherokee hit a telephone pole on the 2100 block of the road. At the time, Kopay was mowing his lawn when the crash occurred, which broke the utility pole in half and in which speed was certainly a factor.

"This is nothing new," he said. "People come flying down here all the time. That pole has been hit before."

Kopay added that the fence in front of his house was destroyed by yet another car accident a few years ago.

"People just have to slow down," he said. "We're lucky no one was killed out here today."


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