{"id":173608,"date":"2026-04-23T06:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:40:32","slug":"crash-shuts-down-part-of-i-78-in-berks-county-western-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173608\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash shuts down part of I-78 in Berks County | Western-berks-county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHEL TWP., Pa. \u2013 A multi-vehicle accident closed part of Interstate 78 in Bethel Township, Berks County, Wednesday night into Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police say it happened around 11:05 p.m. Wednesday in the eastbound lanes between Exit 13 for Route 501 and Exit 16 to Midway.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said multiple cars were involved, and several people were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 2 a.m. Thursday, all eastbound lanes were still closed to traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHEL TWP., Pa. \u2013 A multi-vehicle accident closed part of Interstate 78 in Bethel Township, Berks County, Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46043,4128,70349,128,130,129,6654],"class_list":{"0":"post-173608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-bethel-township","10":"tag-i-78","11":"tag-multi-vehicle-accident","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-road-closure"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173608","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=173608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}