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BERKELEY, Calif. – Two crashes, one of them fatal, blocked several lanes on westbound Interstate 80 in Berkeley <\/a>on Friday, bringing traffic <\/a>to a crawl during the late-afternoon commute.<\/p>\n Two crashes reported <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n California Highway Patrol officers responded around 3:26 p.m. to westbound I-80 near University Avenue.<\/p>\n CHP initially reported a crash involving at least five vehicles, including a semi-truck, that blocked at least three lanes. The agency later clarified that two separate crashes occurred in the area at about the same time.<\/p>\n The fatal crash involved two cars and occurred on westbound I-80 east of Ashby Avenue. The second crash happened on westbound I-80 just west of University Avenue.<\/p>\n Investigation underway <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Authorities have not determined what caused either crash but confirmed at least one person died.<\/p>\n Several lanes were closed while officers investigated the scenes.<\/p>\n The Source: This story is based on information from the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n Berkeley<\/a>Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, Calif. – Two crashes, one of them fatal, blocked several lanes on westbound Interstate 80 in Berkeley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,764,1184,100,143,145,144,821,1181],"class_list":["post-483481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-berkeley","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-traffic","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483481","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=483481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}