{"id":109931,"date":"2026-02-10T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109931\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:04:11","slug":"overnight-tractor-trailer-crash-in-hempfield-township-shuts-down-interstate-70-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109931\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight tractor-trailer crash in Hempfield Township shuts down Interstate 70 traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interstate 70 has been shut down due to an overnight tractor-trailer crash in Hempfield Township.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatchers said\u00a0that Interstate 70 was closed in both directions due to a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer that happened just before 12:45 a.m. on Tuesday near Exit 54 for Yukon in Hempfield Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT hasn&#8217;t given a timeframe yet on when the interstate is expected to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>An aerial view of the crash from the KDKA Drone Team showed traffic on the interstate backed up in both directions for at least one mile.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji-fly-20260210-022726-11-1770709083036-photo.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"dji-fly-20260210-022726-11-1770709083036-photo.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Interstate 70 in Hempfield Township has been shut down in both directions due to an overnight crash involving a tractor-trailer near Exit 54 for Yukon.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Drone Team \/ KDKA Photojournalist Brian Smithmyer<\/p>\n<p>Dispatchers said that two people were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries or conditions are unknown at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this time what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police out of the Belle Vernon barracks will be leading the investigation into the crash.  <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interstate 70 has been shut down due to an overnight tractor-trailer crash in Hempfield Township. Dispatchers said\u00a0that Interstate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18311,5976,1224,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-109931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-interstate-70","tag-multi-vehicle-crash","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109931","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=109931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}