{"id":117545,"date":"2026-02-18T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:26:09","slug":"butler-county-coroner-called-to-crash-on-route-8-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117545\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler County\u00a0coroner called to crash on Route 8 in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA portion of Route 8 in Butler County has reopened following a serious crash that prompted the call of the coroner Wednesday afternoon. WATCH PREVIOUS VIDEO ABOVE Emergency dispatchers said Route 8 (Pittsburgh Road) in Butler Township was closed around 2 p.m. following reports of a crash.   Emergency dispatchers said the coroner had been called to the crash, which was between Litman Road and McCalmont Road\/Vogel Road.PennDOT officials previously said the road would remain closed until further notice, but the transportation department&#8217;s 511 website said as of 4:50 p.m., all lanes had reopened.  No additional details have been released. Action News 4 is working to learn more about the crash. This is a developing story.  Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A portion of Route 8 in Butler County has reopened following a serious crash that prompted the call of the coroner Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH PREVIOUS VIDEO ABOVE <\/p>\n<p>Emergency dispatchers said Route 8 (Pittsburgh Road) in Butler Township was closed around 2 p.m. following reports of a crash.   <\/p>\n<p>Emergency dispatchers said the coroner had been called to the crash, which was between Litman Road and McCalmont Road\/Vogel Road.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT officials previously said the road would remain closed until further notice, but the transportation department&#8217;s 511 website said as of 4:50 p.m., all lanes had reopened.  <\/p>\n<p>No additional details have been released. <\/p>\n<p>Action News 4 is working to learn more about the crash. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A portion of Route 8 in Butler County has reopened following a serious crash that prompted the call&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4112,16671,17147,347,8195,55803,55802,3431,28,30,29,32981,5607,12139,2581,36026,55801,2583],"class_list":{"0":"post-117545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-butler-county","9":"tag-butler-township","10":"tag-coroner","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-emergency-dispatcher","13":"tag-litman-road","14":"tag-mccalmont-road","15":"tag-penndot","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","18":"tag-pennsylvania-news","19":"tag-pittsburgh-road","20":"tag-route","21":"tag-route-8","22":"tag-scene","23":"tag-section","24":"tag-vogel-road","25":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117545","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=117545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}