{"id":142745,"date":"2026-03-19T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:38:25","slug":"interstate-78-reopens-in-northern-berks-after-fatal-crash-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142745\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstate 78 reopens in northern Berks after fatal crash [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastbound Interstate 78 has reopened after a fatal motor vehicle accident, Berks County emergency officials announced,<\/p>\n<p>The interstate was closed about 5:30 a.m. Thursday at the Hamburg exit.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials announced around 9 a.m. that the interstate had reopened and the traffic backlog was clearing.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic had been diverted into Hamburg while state police investigate. Tractor trailers were to remain on the interstate, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eastbound Interstate 78 has reopened after a fatal motor vehicle accident, Berks County emergency officials announced, The interstate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-142745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142745","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=142745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}