Pittsburgh is poised settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a Glassport woman who died in 2012 of injuries she suffered in a traffic accident on Second Avenue.

City Council on Tuesday introduced a resolution that would authorize payment of $47,000 to the estate of Theresa R. Anderson. Anderson, 43, was killed Oct. 30, 2012, while riding in a vehicle involved in a crash with four other vehicles in the 2400 block of Second Avenue.

Tim McNulty, spokesman for Mayor Bill Peduto, declined to comment. A call to the Downtown law firm of Joyce and Bittner, which represents Anderson’s family, was not returned.

Anderson, a physical therapist and Norwin High School graduate, was a passenger in a car that collided with a truck in merging traffic between Bates and Brady streets in South Oakland. The car went airborne and struck three other vehicles before landing on its roof, according to the lawsuit.

Anderson died at the scene of blunt-force trauma and a brain injury. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled her death accidental.

The lawsuit contends conditions of the street at the merge point were “dangerous, unsafe and hazardous and the city was negligent in not marking it properly.

Council is expected to vote on the resolution in coming weeks.

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