1 hurt after crash into Murrysville mortgage company

Paul Peirce
Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 7:11 a.m. | Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 7:11 a.m.

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Rick Rohall, loan officer at Union Home Mortgage branch in Murrysville, surveys damage at the office along Route 22 on Friday. “Thank goodness the office was not open or someone could have been seriously hurt inside,” he said. Murrysville police investigating crash that injured the driver.

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One person was taken by ambulance to a local hospital early Friday after a vehicle crashed into a Murrysville business, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher.

The two-vehicle crash was reported at 6:30 a.m. on Route 22. One of the vehicles slammed into the Murrysville branch of the Union Home Mortgage Corp. The mortgage company is adjacent to Murrysville Pizza Co. at 3920 William Penn Highway. The crash was near the intersection with Sardis Road.

Initial reports indicated the crash was into pizzeria, which alarmed Jody Manofsky, whose son James Wilson owns the pizza shop. His business wasn’t damaged and will be open as usual Friday.

Rick Rohall, a loan officer with the mortgage company, was outside the building Friday morning surveying the extensive damage caused by the crash.

“Thank goodness the office was not open or someone could have been seriously hurt inside,” he said.

A coworker received a call at about 6 a.m. from Murrysville police alerting them a car was inside the building.

Like Rohall, Anthony Cimino, a principal with C & H Properties which owns the building, was thankful no one was inside the businesses when the crash occurred.

The building also houses a RE/MAX Heritage real estate office. Cimino said damage was minimal to that office, which was able to open Friday.

Cimino did not yet have a damage estimate.

A police report on the crash was not yet available.

On Sept. 30, four Franklin Regional students and a van bus driver were taken to Forbes Regional Hospital as a precaution when a school van crashed into the Eat’n Park restaurant along the same stretch of highway about 7 a.m.

Police reported the A.J. Myers & Sons transportation company van was carrying five high school students and its driver through a parking lot when a vehicle ahead of it put on its brake. Police said the minivan driver swerved to avoid a collision and thought he was applying his brakes, but hit the gas pedal instead causing it to crash into the restaurant building.