Terrelle Pryor, ex-NFL player and Jeannette standout, sued over South Side crash

Former Jeannette football star and NFL player Terrelle Pryor is being sued in Allegheny County for negligence after three women said he crashed into their vehicle on Pittsburgh’s South Side this spring, seriously injuring them.

Two separate lawsuits were filed on Oct. 22 in Common Pleas Court.

Plaintiffs Thea Brown and Andrea Brown, who filed one suit, and Leah Harvey, who filed the other, are all from Indianapolis.

Thea Brown was driving a Nissan Rogue on East Carson Street near 33rd Street on May 31 at 8:20 p.m. and was waiting at a flashing yellow light to make a left-hand turn into a GetGo parking lot.

Pryor, 36, was driving a Cybertruck heading in the opposite direction. As he approached a red light, two trucks were stopped in the left lane in front of him.

Instead of stopping, the lawsuits claimed, Pryor swerved into the right lane around the trucks and ran the red light.

He crashed into the Nissan Rogue attempting to turn into the gas station, the lawsuits said.

The impact of the crash caused the Rogue to flip on its side and be pinned against the traffic light post.

Harvey had to be cut from the mangled SUV and was taken to a local hospital.

According to the complaint, Pryor never hit his brakes until he crashed into the Rogue.

“This is further evidence of reckless conduct and further evidence of defendant being distracted while running a red light and entering a busy intersection,” her lawsuit said.

Harvey suffered extensive injuries in the crash, including a broken right leg and fractures in her face.

Thea Brown suffered a right hand laceration that damaged muscles and tendons, as well as hip pain, her lawsuit said.

Andrea Brown suffered a disc herniation in her cervical spine, a bowel perforation, a femoral neck fracture, pubic fracture, broken leg and other injuries.

The lawsuits accuse Pryor of negligence and allege he did not have car insurance at the time of the crash or that he was under the impression he was covered by State Farm.

There is a separate docket, also in Common Pleas Court, in which Pryor put State Farm insurance company on notice of potential legal action.

Pryor’s lawyer, Michael Leahey, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Pryor, a star quarterback at Jeannette High School who went on to win two Big Ten championships at Ohio State and play for five NFL teams, retired in 2018.

Since then, he has been in court repeatedly for civil and criminal matters.

He was stabbed by his girlfriend in December 2019 and suffered serious injuries. In that domestic incident, Pryor pleaded guilty in Allegheny County to a summary count of harassment, while his girlfriend pleaded guilty to simple assault.

In 2022, he pleaded guilty in Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court to criminal mischief in relation to another domestic dispute.

Last year, Pryor filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, Big Ten, Ohio State and Learfield Communications seeking restitution for the use of his name, image and likeness stemming from his college football career.

The suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of Ohio, was dismissed in July as untimely. The judge ruled there was a four-year statute of limitations that began to toll at the end of his career at Ohio State in 2010.