{"id":143133,"date":"2026-03-19T21:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:38:33","slug":"crash-involving-tractor-trailer-ties-up-traffic-on-stretch-of-i-78-in-upper-saucon-southern-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143133\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving tractor-trailer ties up traffic on stretch of I-78 in Upper Saucon | Southern Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; Traffic on a stretch of I-78 eastbound in Lehigh County was tied up after a crash involving a\u00a0tractor-trailer Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>County dispatchers say the crash happened\u00a0just before 4:30 a.m. in\u00a0Upper Saucon Township. It happened between the Quakertown and Hellertown\/Bethlehem exits.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is flowing on one lane there.<\/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 was backed up just past the MacArthur Road exit all the way towards Lehigh Street.<\/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 target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/traffic\/cameras\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic section of our website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; Traffic on a stretch of I-78 eastbound in Lehigh County was tied up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,28,2795],"class_list":["post-143133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-upper-saucon-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143133","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=143133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}