BARKER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police briefly shut down Interstate 81 south in the Town of Barker, Broome County, N.Y., after responding to a multi-vehicle crash in a work zone.<\/p>\n
Troopers responded to the crash on Aug. 19 around 11:59 a.m. The crash involved four vehicles, including a tractor-trailer that caused the initial crash, the police said.<\/p>\n
The tractor-trailer struck the second vehicle, pushing it forward and causing a chain reaction that struck the third and fourth vehicles.<\/p>\n
One occupant from each vehicle was transported to UHS Wilson Medical Center, with no reports of any life-threatening injuries. There have also been no reported injuries or equipment damage for the road workers who were there at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n
Two dogs fled from one of the involved vehicles, a German Shepard and a poodle-type, that were last seen in the area along I-81 and Route 11. <\/p>\n
Following the crash, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation discovered that the tractor-trailer experienced a fuel leak after the crash.<\/p>\n
The interstate was reopened after only a few minutes of closure. <\/p>\n
The investigation into the matter is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARKER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police briefly shut down Interstate 81 south in the Town of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-325458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325458","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=325458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}