{"id":162289,"date":"2026-04-10T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:10:16","slug":"i-78-crash-involving-6-vehicles-causes-delays-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162289\/","title":{"rendered":"I-78 crash involving 6 vehicles causes delays in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-vehicle crash slowed traffic late Monday afternoon on a stretch of Interstate 78 in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on I-78 eastbound in the area of Lehigh Street in Allentown, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PSPTroopMPIO\/status\/2041245681533276417\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to a post on X by Trooper Nathan Branosky<\/a>, a state police spokesperson. Both the left and center lanes were blocked, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/511PA.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">511PA.com<\/a> reported the crash around 3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic maps and cameras showed I-78 eastbound traffic was jammed past the Route 222 exit following the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was cleared and traffic was flowing again, Branosky said around 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the crash were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-vehicle crash slowed traffic late Monday afternoon on a stretch of Interstate 78 in Lehigh County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,433,182,139,28,2183,664,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-162289","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-breaking-news","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-salisbury-township","18":"tag-south-whitehall-township","19":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162289","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=162289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}