{"id":158968,"date":"2026-04-07T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:09:08","slug":"motorcyclist-injured-in-crash-involving-tractor-trailer-on-i-78-western-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158968\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist injured in crash involving tractor\u2011trailer on I\u201178 | Western Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; A crash involving a tractor\u2011trailer and a motorcycle shut down part of I\u201178 Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police say the collision happened just after 2:30 p.m. on I\u201178 East near mile marker 315.2 in Upper Macungie Township.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Motorcyclist injured in crash involving tractor&#x2011;trailer on I&#x2011;78\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d40dfec8044.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was taken to a nearby hospital, according to police. The extent of the rider\u2019s injuries is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the left lane remains closed and is expected to stay that way for some time, causing significant backups in the area.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Traffic backed up on I-78 E for TT motorcycle accident\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d40ec54d97f.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Stick with 69 News for any updates we receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; A crash involving a tractor\u2011trailer and a motorcycle shut down part of I\u201178&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,40433,4128,3185,1224,27362,69387,4129],"class_list":{"0":"post-158968","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-hospitalization","12":"tag-i-78","13":"tag-motorcycle-crash","14":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","15":"tag-tractor-trailer","16":"tag-traffic-backup","17":"tag-upper-macungie-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158968","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=158968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}