{"id":107093,"date":"2026-02-06T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107093\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:24:08","slug":"crash-in-butler-county-shuts-down-portion-of-i-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107093\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash in Butler County shuts down portion of I-79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash has closed a stretch of Interstate 79 in both directions in Butler County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to PennDOT, both the northbound and southbound lanes have been closed between Exit 78 (Cranberry\/Mars) and Exit 88 (Zeilienople) due to a multi-vehicle crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closure will remain in place until the crash is cleared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, PennDOT has reminded drivers that a speed limit restriction is in place on I-79 due to winter weather. Speed has been reduced to 45 in both north and southbound directions between PA 5 in Erie and all the way to Butler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have a crew heading to the scene and will bring you the latest updates on KDKA-TV and KDKA.com.\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 has closed a stretch of Interstate 79 in both directions in Butler County.\u00a0 According to PennDOT,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4112,1540,3568,3431,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-107093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-butler-county","9":"tag-car-crash","10":"tag-i-79","11":"tag-penndot","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}