{"id":144687,"date":"2026-03-21T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:30:10","slug":"crash-slows-traffic-on-i-78-in-lehigh-county-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144687\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash slows traffic on I-78 in Lehigh County | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEISENBERG TWP., Pa. &#8212; A crash slowed traffic on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County, near Berks County, on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A tractor-trailer and a semi-truck crashed on I-78 East in Weisenberg Township, said Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at 8:30 p.m. at mile marker 44.1, about a mile before the New Smithville exit (Exit 45).<\/p>\n<p>One lane had been closed, and heavy traffic delays were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police were not yet sure if anyone was hurt or the extent of injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/traffic\/#tncms-source=Top-Navigation-Traffic-LIve-Streaming-Cameras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WATCH: Live-streaming cameras<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEISENBERG TWP., Pa. &#8212; A crash slowed traffic on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County, near Berks County, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,805,1704],"class_list":["post-144687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-berks","tag-lehighvalley","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144687","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=144687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144687\/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=144687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}