{"id":142659,"date":"2026-03-19T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142659\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:31:09","slug":"at-least-1-dead-after-crash-on-i-78-in-berks-significant-traffic-issues-expected-in-hamburg-area-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142659\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 1 dead after crash on I-78 in Berks, &#8216;significant traffic issues&#8217; expected in Hamburg area | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMBURG, Pa. &#8211; Hamburg police say a deadly crash on I-78 is causing\u00a0significant traffic issues in the borough Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police say it happened at 4:46 a.m. near exit 30 on I-78 eastbound in Berks County between the Hamburg and Lenhartsville exits.<\/p>\n<p>The lanes are currently closed.<\/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>Video shows a tractor trailer and vehicle with major damage. It&#8217;s unclear if anyone else was injured at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Borough police are asking drivers to avoid the borough&#8217;s downtown due to increased traffic on 4th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor-trailers are asked to stay on the Interstate, borough police said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Police said drivers should expect significant traffic issues in Hamburg for most of the morning possibly through early\u00a0Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>People are asked to plan extra travel time and to find alternative routes to avoid traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>No word on what led up to the crash.<\/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":"HAMBURG, Pa. &#8211; Hamburg police say a deadly crash on I-78 is causing\u00a0significant traffic issues in the borough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,1704],"class_list":["post-142659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659","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=142659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}