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City Man, Two Other Dead in Pittsburgh Crash

By Staff Reports
The Tube City Almanac
June 14, 2021
Posted in: Crime and Police News

Pittsburgh firefighters work to extinguish a blaze that ignited after a car crashed into this office building on that city’s North Side. Three people, including a McKeesport man and a Clairton woman, died in the crash. (Pittsburgh police photo)

Three people, including a McKeesport man, died after a car crashed into a blood plasma center on Pittsburgh’s North Side on Saturday morning.

Pittsburgh police said Ronald K. Morgan, 50, was inside the vehicle that crashed into the Biomat USA plasma center in the 1300 block of Western Avenue just before 12 noon. Morgan was pronounced dead at the scene.

The other two victims, Laura E. Meneskie, 35, of Pittsburgh, and Parveena Abdul, 55, of Clairton were employees of Biomat USA who were working inside the building, emergency personnel said.

Police believe that Meneskie and Abdul were struck by the car. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said both women were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have not said whether Morgan was the driver of the vehicle, which witnesses said was traveling at a high rate of speed before leaving the road and colliding with the building, igniting a fire.

Pittsburgh police said a mass-casualty incident was declared and Pittsburgh police, fire and emergency medical personnel responded along with paramedics from Ross-West View EMS and Baldwin EMS.

At least 10 people were working within the building, along with five plasma donors. Police said medics treated “many” victims and one was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.

Firefighters extinguished the two-alarm fire and continued to search for entrapped victims alongside medics, police said. A Pittsburgh paramedic and two Pittsburgh firefighters were treated for minor injuries related to smoke inhalation, police said.

The investigation is ongoing, Pittsburgh police said. Cause of death for each of the victims is pending a ruling from the medical examiner’s office.

Originally published June 14, 2021.

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