{"id":696223,"date":"2026-05-26T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696223\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:40:10","slug":"mental-health-crisis-incident-snarls-traffic-on-i-76-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696223\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health crisis incident snarls traffic on I-76 | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Lake Milton backup.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"833\" height=\"525\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a15afed09341.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"126\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic came to a standstill along the westbound lanes of I-76 near Lake Milton for what the Ohio Department of Transportation is calling a \u201cPolice incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cars and trucks began backing up on the interstate just after 10 a.m. Tuesday, as police and other First Responders gathered along the bridge to deal with a person suffering from a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>According to ODOT, all I-76 westbound lanes were closed beyond the State Route 534 interchange.<\/p>\n<p>One driver told 21 News that traffic began to move slowly just after 10:30 a.m. Before 11 a.m., cars were moving freely again over the bridge. 21 News spotted a car parked along the bridge, but emergency vehicles had cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the person involved was taken to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Milton Backup.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1128\" height=\"684\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a15b06897e5b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"121\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic came to a standstill along the westbound lanes of I-76 near Lake Milton for what the Ohio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,339453,514,515,339454,6647,155465,109666],"class_list":["post-696223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-i-76","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-ohio-department-of-transportation","tag-police-incident","tag-road-closure","tag-traffic-jam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}