Lawsuit Filed Over Former Pittsburgh Radio Personality's Crash Death

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA — A former Pittsburgh radio personality's widow has filed a lawsuit against U-Haul for renting the truck that slammed into her husband's vehicle to a man who had two previous DUI convictions.

Jennifer Forsyth filed the lawsuit last week in Butler County Common Pleas Court, the Cranberry Eagle reported. The lawsuit, which alleges U-Haul failed to check the driving history of the man who pleaded guilty to causing her husband's death, seeks damages in excess of $35,000.

Bertram "B.J." Forsyth, 46, of Cranberry, died in the December 2022 crash that occurred at the intersection of Route 19 and Ehrman Road. Darren Martin, 35, of Aliquippa, Beaver County, pleaded guilty last week to homicide by vehicle and DUI charges and will be sentenced next month.

Forsyth was a radio personality known as "B.J." when he was on the air at Pittsburgh radio stations WKST-FM (96.1.) and 3WS-FM (94.5). He also worked at the Charleroi-licensed WESA-FM (98.3) under the name Art Vandalay.