Crews were finally able to retrieve an SUV that plunged more than 100 feet into the Monongahela River in January, according to state police Trooper Rocco Gagliardi.
Jacinta Stevens, 31, of Pittsburgh’s West End died in the crash.
Pennsylvania State Police and river rescue teams pulled her vehicle Monday from the water from a boat launch on Pittsburgh’s South Side near the Birmingham Bridge.
Gagliardi said forensics teams will perform a “full analysis of the vehicle” as part of the investigation into Stevens’ death.
Officials said she veered across three lanes of traffic on Jan. 29 as she was driving outbound on the Parkway East (Interstate 376) after she lost control of her Ford Explorer. She hit a nearly 6-foot-tall snowbank and traveled over a concrete barrier before plummeting into the ice-covered river.
Divers pulled Stevens, a fashion model and City of Pittsburgh employee, from the bottom the river and took her to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, where she died.
