BELL ACRES, Pa. (AP) - Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a man is facing vehicular homicide and other charges in a head-on hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist near Pittsburgh over the weekend.
Allegheny County police say officers in the borough of Bell Acres were dispatched just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of a collision involving a pickup truck and a cyclist. Paramedics found the bicyclist severely injured and he was flown to a trauma unit but pronounced dead shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday. The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office identified him as 51-year-old Curtis Brown of Pittsburgh.
Police said an erratic driver had been reported minutes earlier and a Leet Township officer spotted a suspected vehicle, which was stopped and the driver arrested. Police sent to the crash scene were told that the truck had been heading west in the eastbound lanes when it struck the eastbound cyclist head-on.
Justin Michael Miller, 33, faces charges including vehicular homicide while driving under the influence, aggravated assault, possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia, fleeing and eluding and driving under suspension. Court documents don’t list an attorney for Miller and a listed number for him couldn’t be found Sunday.
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