{"id":159386,"date":"2026-04-07T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:55:07","slug":"route-1-southbound-closed-for-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159386\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 1 Southbound Closed For Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Southbound Route 1 is closed on Tuesday morning due to a crash, authorities reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Township Fire Rescue Department said the highway is closed between Rockhill Drive and Street Road from the crash, which happened around 5:25 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said drivers should avoid the area and seek alternate routes. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the crash will cause delays and heavy congestion in surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>NBC 10 Philadelphia has reported that at least three vehicles were involved in the crash along Route 1&#8217;s southbound lanes \u2014 between the exits for the Neshaminy Mall and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Trevose.<\/p>\n<p>The incident had closed all southbound lanes as drivers were being diverted away from the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately say what caused this crash or said if anyone was hurt in this incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/multi-vehicle-crash-closes-route-1-southbound-lanes-at-the-pa-turnpike\/4381254\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC 10 Philadelphia reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please see Patch for further details and information when they become available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Southbound Route 1 is closed on Tuesday morning due to a crash, authorities reported.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-159386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159386","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=159386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}