{"id":136341,"date":"2026-03-12T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:06","slug":"crews-working-to-clear-tractor-trailer-following-overnight-crash-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136341\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews working to clear tractor trailer following overnight crash in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn accident involving a tractor trailer overnight in Donegal, Westmoreland County, caused some delays early Thursday morning. It happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. The first calls came in for reports of a tractor trailer over an embankment along the Pennsylvania Turnpike near mile marker 82. Crews could be seen working to get the tractor trailer cleared from a hillside not far from the Dairy Queen on 31. At this point, it is still unclear if the driver was injured or if anyone else was involved. We&#8217;ve reached out to officials to learn more. 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\tDONEGAL TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An accident involving a tractor trailer overnight in Donegal, Westmoreland County, caused some delays early Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p>It happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>The first calls came in for reports of a tractor trailer over an embankment along the Pennsylvania Turnpike near mile marker 82. <\/p>\n<p>Crews could be seen working to get the tractor trailer cleared from a hillside not far from the Dairy Queen on 31. <\/p>\n<p>At this point, it is still unclear if the driver was injured or if anyone else was involved. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to officials to learn more. <\/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":"An accident involving a tractor trailer overnight in Donegal, Westmoreland County, caused some delays early Thursday morning. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1304,458,1874,62854,6849,62856,62855,505,37286,6753,29868,3188,139,39883,28,30,29,4696,87,27362,19570,5910],"class_list":["post-136341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-1304","tag-a-m","tag-accident","tag-clear-tractor-trailer","tag-crew","tag-dairy-queen","tag-delay-early-thursday-morning","tag-donegal","tag-embankment","tag-emergency","tag-first-call","tag-mile-marker","tag-news","tag-overnight-crash","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-report","tag-tractor-trailer","tag-turnpike","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136341","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=136341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}