{"id":241049,"date":"2026-07-11T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:56:07","slug":"violent-wrong-way-crash-shuts-down-i-76-at-belmont-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241049\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent wrong-way crash shuts down I-76 at Belmont Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The westbound lanes of I-76 are closed Saturday at Belmont Avenue as investigators try to figure out what led to a violent early morning crash, where a driver was going the wrong way on the Schuylkill Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said a driver going eastbound on the westbound lanes of I-76 slammed into several cars around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT said the crash came at the end of a police chase.<\/p>\n<p>Car parts are scattered across the westbound lanes, and a single car door could be seen leaning against the guard rail.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet said whether anyone was injured, but KYW Newsradio has asked Pennsylvania State Police for more information. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/stations\/kywnewsradio\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stay with KYW<\/a> as this story develops. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The westbound lanes of I-76 are closed Saturday at Belmont Avenue as investigators try&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,12002,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-241049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-car-crash","tag-i-76","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241049","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=241049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}