Woman, 19, who crashed over Pittsburgh hillside was learning to drive, authorities say

PITTSBURGH — A woman who crashed over a hillside in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood was learning to drive.

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The SUV went about 40 feet over the hillside in the area of Farmhouse Drive and Reservoir Drive.

Public Safety officials said on Tuesday that a 19-year-old woman who was driving the SUV was learning and accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake.

That woman and a man in the passenger’s seat were both trapped inside, and first responders pulled them up the hillside in a Stokes Basket. They were taken to a hospital and are expected to be OK.

Crews later pulled up the heavily damaged Jeep.

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