{"id":142576,"date":"2026-03-19T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142576\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:44:08","slug":"crash-involving-tractor-trailer-shuts-down-part-of-i-78-in-upper-saucon-traffic-backed-up-southern-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142576\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving tractor-trailer shuts down part of I-78 in Upper Saucon, traffic backed up | Southern Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; A stretch of I-78 eastbound in Lehigh County is closed after a crash involving a\u00a0tractor-trailer Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>All lanes are closed between the Quakertown and Hellertown\/Bethlehem exits.<\/p>\n<p>County dispatchers say the crash happened\u00a0just before 4:30 a.m. in\u00a0Upper Saucon Township.<\/p>\n<p>No word on if anybody was injured, or what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/station\/apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Download the FREE 69News Traffic App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traffic is backed up just past the MacArthur Road exit all the way towards Lehigh Street.<\/p>\n<p>The road is expected to be closed for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>People are advised to give themselves time and head out early for their morning commute.<\/p>\n<p>For multiple camera images of highways in the region, you can head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/traffic\/cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic section of our website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; A stretch of I-78 eastbound in Lehigh County is closed after a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28,2795],"class_list":["post-142576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-upper-saucon-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142576","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=142576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}