{"id":159541,"date":"2026-04-07T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:02:11","slug":"crash-on-route-1-southbound-in-bensalem-pa-leaves-one-person-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159541\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash on Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa. leaves one person dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WPVI;\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WPVI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"107\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wpvicov.png\"\/><\/a>Tue, April 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/19f7237c2e719476a7efc6d96cecb492.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A serious multi-vehicle crash left one person dead and closed the southbound lanes of Route 1 in Bensalem for several hours on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 6 a.m. in the southbound lanes between the Rockhill Drive\/Neshaminy Mall exit and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p>Video from Chopper 6 showed three vehicles stopped at the scene, all with front-end damage.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Chopper 6 was over the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that closed Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0e6b7d11d7ea0e114de3c2b9ae011666.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chopper 6 was over the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that closed Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Chopper 6 was over the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that closed Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c7dcd5b503d647594766477929276428.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chopper 6 was over the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that closed Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the person who died has not been released. There has been no word of any other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lanes were closed for more than four hours, but all lanes of the highway have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, April 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM UTC A serious multi-vehicle crash left one person dead and closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,35869,72210],"class_list":["post-159541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-multi-vehicle","tag-southbound-lanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159541","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=159541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}