{"id":217974,"date":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","slug":"crash-snarls-traffic-closes-part-of-i-696-in-oakland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217974\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash snarls traffic, closes part of I-696 in Oakland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash on Interstate 696 snarled Metro Detroit commuter traffic early Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Department of Transportation said all lanes of traffic on westbound I-696 were closed as a result of the 4:37 a.m. crash in the Farmington Hills area. The highway was still closed at 6:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near Halsted Road, just east of the I-275 interchange. At least two vehicles were involved, based on helicopter views of the scene. Westbound traffic was being directed off the freeway at Exit 5 \/ Orchard Lake Road; with many of them using 12 Mile Road as an alternate route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over a dozen police and emergency vehicles could be seen in the area of the crash and at Exit 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additional details will be provided on air and online when they are available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MDOT traffic maps are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mdotjboss.state.mi.us\/MiDrive\/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at the MI Drive site<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash on Interstate 696 snarled Metro Detroit commuter traffic early Friday morning.\u00a0 The Michigan Department of Transportation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3297,10975,31220,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-217974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-car-crash","tag-farmington-hills","tag-i-696","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}