{"id":159562,"date":"2026-04-07T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:27:10","slug":"crash-on-route-1-southbound-in-bensalem-pa-leaves-one-person-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159562\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash on Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa. leaves one person dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened around 6 a.m. in the southbound lanes between the Rockhill Drive\/Neshaminy Mall exit and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0e6b7d11d7ea0e114de3c2b9ae011666.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><img alt=\"Chopper 6 was over the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that closed Route 1 southbound in Bensalem, Pa.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775579230_585_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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identity of the person who died has not been released. There has been no word of any other injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The southbound lanes were closed for more than four hours, but all lanes of the highway have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious multi-vehicle crash left one person dead and closed the southbound lanes of Route 1 in Bensalem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,35869,72210],"class_list":["post-159562","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\/159562","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=159562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}