{"id":158839,"date":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","slug":"state-police-6-vehicle-accident-causes-major-delays-on-i-78-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158839\/","title":{"rendered":"State police: 6\u2011vehicle accident causes major delays on I\u201178 | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"1xxx I 78 5 car crash near lehigh st jmm_01636.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d413c2ba433.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of 511PA<\/p>\n<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A six\u2011vehicle crash is causing major delays on I\u201178 East, according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the crash happened in the area of Lehigh Street in Allentown. Both the left and center lanes are currently blocked, and drivers should expect significant backups.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not yet released details on what caused the crash or whether anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. 69 News will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of 511PA ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A six\u2011vehicle crash is causing major delays on I\u201178 East, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4128,20967,4084,5976,1224,1017,23871],"class_list":{"0":"post-158839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-i-78","12":"tag-lane-closure","13":"tag-lehigh-street","14":"tag-multi-vehicle-crash","15":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","16":"tag-traffic-accident","17":"tag-traffic-delays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158839","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=158839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}