{"id":122811,"date":"2026-02-25T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:59:11","slug":"large-piece-of-metal-stuck-under-route-22-overpass-removed-route-512-now-open-lehigh-valley-regional-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122811\/","title":{"rendered":"Large piece of metal stuck under Route 22 overpass removed, Route 512 now open | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANOVER TWP., Pa. &#8211; A large piece of metal became lodged under a Route 22 overpass Tuesday afternoon after a dump truck with an oversized load struck the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Colonial Regional Police Dept. says PennDOT and emergency crews were on scene inspecting the bridge\u2019s integrity and successfully cleared the debris at about 2:26 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"metal chunk.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699df9f0e673a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of the Colonial Regional Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p>Route 512 was closed to all southbound traffic at the Route 22 underpass in Hanover Township but reopened once the debris was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured, and no vehicles were damaged from striking the metal, dispatchers said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Route 512 road closure\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699de1f2d2309.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER TWP., Pa. &#8211; A large piece of metal became lodged under a Route 22 overpass Tuesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,805,1704],"class_list":["post-122811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehighvalley","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122811","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=122811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}