{"id":166482,"date":"2026-03-17T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166482\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:56:22","slug":"40-vehicle-pileup-shuts-down-i-81-near-pulaski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166482\/","title":{"rendered":"40-vehicle pileup shuts down I-81 near Pulaski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF RICHLAND, New York (WWNY) &#8211; State police say a 40-vehicle crash has shut down part of Interstate 81 in Oswego County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pileup happened Tuesday afternoon in the southbound lane between Exit 126 (Pulaski) and Exit 131 (Tinker Tavern).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Interstate 81 southbound at the Pulaski exit is currently closed so emergency vehicles can respond to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the crash involves 40 vehicles, including multiple tractor trailers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers say motorists should expect significant delays and urge them to avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">7 News will update this story when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"New York State Police report a 40 car pileup on I-81 near Pulaski\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WZPC53HOLBHCZNHAEWEDKOWDEQ.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"675\" \/>New York State Police report a 40 car pileup on I-81 near Pulaski(New York State Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF RICHLAND, New York (WWNY) &#8211; State police say a 40-vehicle crash has shut down part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2214,3906,61820,9,11,10,49,51,50,68289,8938],"class_list":["post-166482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crash","tag-interstate-81","tag-multi-vehicle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-oswego-county","tag-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}