{"id":238559,"date":"2026-03-27T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:00:08","slug":"lanes-closed-on-i-696-in-oakland-county-after-crash-causes-fuel-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238559\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanes closed on I-696 in Oakland County after crash causes fuel spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers on Interstate 696 in Oakland County should expect &#8220;long&#8221; delays Thursday night after a crash involving a semi-truck caused a fuel spill.<\/p>\n<p>According to Michigan State Police, the crash happened on westbound I-696 near Meredith. Police say the semi truck driver went through a median wall, severely damaging it. Authorities say large portions of concrete are impacting both sides of the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5585ac06-8385-4d25-9bb2-5538b7bbfcb3.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Crash causes fuel spill on I-696 Oakland County \" height=\"826\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Michigan Department of Transportation<\/p>\n<p>According to the Michigan Department of Transportation, ramps from northbound and southbound I-75 to eastbound I-696 are closed until further notice. The freeway&#8217;s westbound lanes are also closed.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is unknown. It is also unknown if any injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers on Interstate 696 in Oakland County should expect &#8220;long&#8221; delays Thursday night after a crash involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3297,31220,34069,45040,143,904,145,144,821],"class_list":["post-238559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-car-crash","tag-i-696","tag-michigan-department-of-transportation","tag-michigan-state-police","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238559","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=238559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}